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TIL Harvard researchers were able to store 700 terabytes of data on a single gram of DNA.

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4Xo0R TIL that cashiers have the 15th safest occupation in the United States but the leading cause of workplace death in that profession is homicide. 39 out of 47 cashier deaths in 2018 were caused by violence from another person
LEWQ TIL that in 2012 an image depicting the french revolution in a History finals paper (GSCE equivalent) was deemed suitable, unknowing the examiners and students that in the background was a photoshopped mech warrior.
N7L76 [TIL] that the soldiers who guarded the Nuremberg War Trials were former Waffen SS
LLOV TIL that in the 80s (a decade before the WWW started to come on its own) 25 million people in France went on-line to bank, check the weather, chat, make reservations, socialize, check stock prices, and also for porn. No computer: they used a free Minitel terminal.
jNgVX TIL that in 1947, the "Doomsday Clock" was invented, it essentially says how long we have until it is doomsday (midnight). In 1991 it was 17 minutes to midnight, and this year it is 100 seconds to midnight.