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TIL One researcher estimates that with current technology it would take 10,000 automated microscopes thirty years to map the connections between every neuron in a human brain, and 100 million terabytes of disk space to store the data.

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DQPre TIL about the Abade de Priscos pudding, a portuguese caramel flan, that use fifteen egg yolks and Prosciutto fat together with sweet wine.
VMlxB TIL that 90% of the coal we use today only exists because 300 million years ago, microbes that could ingest wood, did not exist, so trees would fall on top of each other, and the weight of all that heavy wood, over millions of years, would compress those trees into peat and then, into coal.
jNGbp TIL King Sobhuza I of Eswatini was called Somhlolo "the Wonder," upon his birth because his father Ndvungunye died as a result of being struck by lightning. Swazis celebrate Somhlolo Day every September 6 as their Independence Day and the national stadium is named Somhlolo stadium
D1Gle TIL of Robert Maxwell, media mogul, British MP, fraudster, and suspected spy. After his naked body was found in the ocean, it was revealed that he had stolen hundreds of millions of pounds from his companies’ pension funds. He is also the father of Ghislaine Maxwell.
ADdrl TIL of CSX 8888, known as "crazy eights": A runaway train that ran uncontrolled through Ohio for two hours at up to 82 km/h. Police tried to stop it by shooting at a fuel cut-off switch and it was eventually stopped by a second locomotive chasing behind it so an engineer could jump aboard.