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TIL the longest & straightest overland route on earth is the most complicated deadly path to travel and no one has supposedly done it.

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a8lrM TIL that in a 1926 interview, inventor Nikola Tesla predicted devices very similar to modern smartphones. He said that once wireless technology was perfected, “the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain,” and people would carry small devices allowing them to communicate instantly
wLVjP TIL Chuck Schuldiner, considered the 'Godfather of Death Metal' died in 2001 at the age of 34 due to complications with cancer. The cancer was entirely treatable, but the medical cost was too expensive for him and his family.
vQb4 TIL a San Francisco biotech startup has managed to 3D print fake rhino horns that carry the same genetic fingerprint as the actual horn. The company will sell rhino horns at one-eighth of the price of the original, undercutting the price poachers can get and forcing them out
1eyP TIL of the concept of posthuman god, the idea that humans of the future might be so intelligent and technologically sophisticated that their behavior would not possibly be comprehensible to current humans, in other words, that they would appear ‘god-like’ by present-day human standards
4M46 TIL the human liver performs more than 500 functions.