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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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wLmx1 TIL In the film Osmosis Jones, Bill Murray's character mentions a "National Chicken Wing Festival" in Buffalo, New York. While the festival did not exist during the filming of the movie, this mention caused organizers to create an annual festival in Buffalo which has been active now for 16 years.
x6Jpw TIL about the "Cathedral Effect" phenomenon, where higher ceilings seem to bias the brain toward more abstract and creative thinking, while lower ceilings promote more detailed, analytical thinking.
WkyvB TIL there was a lunar eclipse during the Siege of Constantinople in May 1453
xjXb TIL 17% of people 7ft tall are in the NBA right now.
N1eJ TIL that the treadmill was invented as a form of punishment for prisoners