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TIL If cockroaches survive a nuclear holocaust, they will still die in our homes from cold and starvation

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YXGP TIL 4kg (8.8lbs) of Botox, evenly distributed, could kill off the entire human population.
9YDDp Today I learned, that our future is in space.
Er9o TIL “Graham’s Number” is so large that according to mathematicians, in theory, storing the ginormous number in one’s head could create a black hole
nnRB TIL American painter Tyree Callahan converted an old typewriter from the 1930s into a machine that prints colors instead of letters; from this he has typed out a series of colorful landscape paintings
jZYM TIL that there is a malicious zip file on the internet that is only 42 kilobytes when compressed, but 4.5 petabytes when unzipped (that’s 4500 terabytes or 4,500,000 gigabytes!)