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TIL that the often quoted 10:1 ratio of bacterial cells to human cells is actually closer to around 1:1

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P1QKe Today I learned Bout Mount Key, an artificial island build by the Calusa, made from discarded seashells
9P4r TIL that an executive defeated Bill Gates 35 out of 37 in a video game, when they met again a month later Gates “won or tied every game. He had studied the game until he solved it.”
e0P9g TIL that in a Roman hospital doctors used to hide Jews from Nazi troops by putting them in quarantine for the extremely contagious "K syndrome". The syndrome didn't actually exist, but the soldiers wouldn't dare enter these rooms.
xVyBD TIL the SS Californian was within 15 miles of HMS Titanic the night Titanic sank. The wireless operator for SS Californian sent a message to Titanic that it was stopped and surrounded by ice, then turned off his wireless equipment and went to bed. Titanic collided with the iceberg 10 minutes later.
77kb TIL that during the first artificial insemination, a woman was chloroformed in front of six medical students and the “most attractive” student gave his semen. The woman was not told that her husband wasn’t the father until the child was 25, and the medical student published an article.