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TIL that, for the 20th anniversary rerelease of Massive Attack’s classic album Mezzanine, they became the first band to release their album by encoding it into DNA.

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VEMm TIL that a rat and a human were hooked up to a virtual reality simulator to interact with each other. The subjects were 12 miles apart and the human did not know the rat was a rat.
VM81k TIL: America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who set forth the then revolutionary concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 were part of a separate continent.
vPMwr TIL Aretha Williams, was given up as a child and informally adopted by Bailey and Mary Jane Robinson. At 15, Aretha became pregnant by Bailey, her adoptive father, and gave birth to music legend Ray Charles. After divorcing Bailey, Mary Jane helped raise Ray alongside Aretha.
wVLW TIL condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men.
kXgg TIL In 2009, a new black spot about the size of the Pacific Ocean appeared in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere.