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

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woX0Y TIL The voice actor Charles Martinet, most famous for being the iconic voices of the Nintendo-characters Mario and Luigi, is also the voice of the dragon Paarthurnax in "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim".
GYE5N TIL Frederick Douglass was the most photographed American of the 19th century.
MemwA TIL: The 101st Airborne was nicknamed "The Chicken Men" by the NVA and the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War because the Eagle insignia looks like a Chicken. North Vietnamese commander was warned to not fight with the "The Chicken Men", because you will surely lose the battle.
mxVMp TIL Werner Herzog once promised fellow documentary maker Errol Morris that he would eat his shoe if Morris ever finished his movie on pet cemeteries, because he found Morris to be incapable of ever finishing his projects. In 1978 Morris finished his film, and Herzog publicly cooked and ate his shoe.
yVeeM TIL the US Navy developed an e-reader with no cellular or wifi connectivity preloaded with 300 books called NeRD.