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TIL that 40% of the genetic information found in our GI Tract doesn’t fit anything ever classified before. Biologists call it “Biological Dark Matter”.

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v1PBB TIL The isolated territory in France called ‘Zone Rouge’ is estimated to take no fewer than 700 years to completely clean due to shells, chemicals, remains, and other waste from World War 1.
kOJm4 TIL that a mere 16 years after being marched 1000s of Miles during the ‘Trail of Tears’, the Choctaw donated what is equivalent to tens of thousands today to Irish during their potato famine.
mrAp TIL that in 1848 a panorama of Cincinnati was made using a special type of photo called daguerreotypes. In 2007, researchers discovered that each frame had detail equivalent to a 140 gigapixel digital photo.
ZbvQ TIL: A former chemist admitted to the tampering of nearly 40,000 drug cases, making them falsely positive.