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TIL the "Tarpeian Rock" is a cliff, some distance higher at 80 feet in Roman times, that was used by the Roman public to execute criminals and perceived traitors for over 300 years

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lokBK TIL The cockroach can live without food for one month and 45 minutes without air; if we tear off cockroach head, it can live another 7 days because most of the nerve cells are located in cockroach abdomen. They are about five times more resistant to radiation than humans.
4XNxN TIL Human genome is 3.3Gb in size. HIV virus is only 9.7kb. Largest known virus genome is 2.47Mb (pandoravirus salinus). Largest known vertebrate genome is 130Gb (marbled lungfish). Largest known plant genome is 150Gb (paris japonica). Largest known genome is 670Gb (Amoeboid) but is disputed.
wL6gJ TIL that South America was once inhabited by giant sloths (Megatherium). It weighed up to 4 tonnes (similar to a present day elephant) and on its hind legs it would have stood 3.5m (12ft), which make it the largest bipedal mammal of all time. It lived from ca 400'000 ago until ca 8'000 ago.
bGxQ TIL that Macklemore changes the number of lives he has seen Oxycontin take when performing Otherside live whenever he loses a friend to the drug. He’s gone from 3 to 6.
OoGbX TIL that in 2012, a group of scientist successfully regenerated a 32000-year-old plant.