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TIL there’s a species of bacteria so resistant to radiation that scientists have nicknamed it “Conan the Bacterium”

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e6AJ TIL that Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt was April Fooled early in his career when his office was taken apart and rebuilt on a platform in the middle of a pond complete with a working phone.
xddo TIL 2005 was statistically one of the worse hurricane season in history recorded with 15 hurricanes and 23 tropical storm causing $150 billion in damage.
Z8JdD Til - Daniel Hale Williams was an American general surgeon, who in 1893 performed the first documented, successful pericardium surgery in the United States to repair a wound. In 1913, Williams was elected as the only African-American charter member of the American College of Surgeons.
mxKao TIL an optical disc called Holographic Versatile Disc was developed that can store up to 6TB of data but never appeared in the market.
voL4 TIL 13.8% of cigarette smokers do not consider cigarette butts to be ‘litter’