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TIL in 2001 it cost $100million to sequence a genome - now it costs $1000

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6ErEm TIL: The ancient Romans used a plant called Silphium as an effective contraceptive. It was worth more than gold and was driven to extinction
97n6 TIL that John Hughes wrote Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in less than a week and went on to shoot the film on what was essentially his first draft of the script.
edVL TIL:When railway tycoon George Pullman died in 1897, his family was so afraid that his corpse would be desecrated by employees, they buried him at night in a pit 8 feet deep, encased in floors and walls of steel-reinforced concrete in a lead-lined casket covered in layers of asphalt and steel rails.
4ba TIL there is no such thing as canola, and the name canola comes from Canadian Oil Low Acid.
Lkw49 TIL about quintuplets that were forced to be raised in a “zoo” when the Canada government took them away from their parents so the queen could have them paraded for her enjoyment.