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TIL that we store 3.7 billion internets worth of data in all of iur DNA strings put together

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VMXYk TIL during the Great Famine, the Ottoman Sultan "Abdulmejid I" couldn't donate more than £1,000, in order not to embarrass Queen Victoria's £2,000 donation. Wanting to donate more, he sent up to 3 ships filled with wheat and Indian Corn as a "hushed-up" gesture, not wanting to upset the Queen.
W7QPA TIL that in 1958 Howard Ulrich and his son sailed over a 1,720-foot wave caused by the largest tsunami ever recorded
W179 TIL that every paramedic in Iceland was trained in Pittsburgh
b6pBN TIL that the album "Songs for the Deaf" by Queens of the Stone Age has a hidden track before Track #1
e0DQE TIL that modern gunpower contains it's own oxidizer for combustion, meaning you could fire a gun in space.