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TIL English trip-hop band Massive Attack encoded the digital audio files of their album "Mezzanine" into 920,000 short DNA strands

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woJRM TIL “Double Sunrise” was a flight operated by Qantas in 1943 between Australia and Sri Lanka that used to take nearly 28 hours observing two sunrises
696r8 TIL The Bronx High School of Science has 9 Nobel Prize winning alumni, which is more than China or Spain
Z891Y TIL After reading how Rosa Parks was robbed and assaulted in her Detroit home at the age of 81, Little Caesars founder Mike Ilitch quietly paid her rent for over a decade until she passed.
Gv9N TIL that ants can count and make small addition / substraction
woL7 TIL that Henry Kissinger’s senior thesis was 383 pages. After he published it, Harvard created the “Kissinger rule,” which restricted the length of all future undergraduate papers to 150 pages.