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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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Z8BZa TIL that a woman can get pregnant, while she’s already pregnant. This phenomenon is known as Superfetation.
Lppd TIL that upside down crosses are not the Satan cross but are the St. Peters cross, and the leviathan cross is in fact the true Satan cross.
a8Jg9 TIL people used to steal corpses and mummies to grind up into paint and medicines
1rKV TIL in 1838, France and Mexico fought the Pastry War over Mexico’s refusal to pay 600,000 pesos to a French pastry chef whose shop had been ransacked by Mexican officers.
jNLvp TIL that Aladár Gerevich, a Hungarian fencer, is regarded as "the greatest Olympic swordsman ever". The only athlete to win the same event 6 times, winning sabre in 6 Olympics between 1932 and 1960 (the 1940 and 1944 games were cancelled due to WWII). His first and last wins were 28 years apart.