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K7RQ TIL Michelangelo had forged Roman antiques to help start his career as an artist
nepaP TIL, 5 exabytes of information was created between 12k BC and 2003 AD. But that rate has gone up to every two days by 2003. An exabyte is 1,024 petabytes, while a petabyte is 1,024 terabytes.
Egpbx TIL that during WWII, the British built a giant rocket-powered explosive wheel, named Panjandrum, intended to breach enemy beach defenses on D-Day. It was wildly uncontrollable and never saw combat.
dDpEB TIL a woman superglued her own teeth back into her mouth when one would fall out for more than a decade because she was terrified of the dentist. As a result, she lost 90% of the bone supporting her teeth in her upper jaw. When she finally sought help, most of her teeth had to be removed & replaced.
GJZN TIL that 14 of the poorest African countries are forced by France, through a colonial pact, to put 85% of their foreign reserve into France central bank.They are effectively putting in 500 Billion dollars every year to the French treasury.