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TIL There are 10 ^31 bacteria phages on the planet. A number that translates into a trillion phages for every grain of sand in the world.

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En7X TIL that a man spent 17 years building a Lamborghini from scratch in his basement and then smashed a hole in his house to get it out
GYmvj TIL that Disney and Stampy (the Minecraft YouTuber) once had a partnership through Wonder Quest. Disney, alongside Stampy and others, actually made Wonder Quest. The studio was Disney’s Maker Studios, now called the Disney Digital Network.
ney5d TIL about the Wolbachia bacteria, which can only be transmitted by females, so eliminates males by killing them or turning them female, and enables host females to reproduce without males
QJDm9 TIL of Christopher Langan, the "smartest man in the world" who broke the ceiling of the IQ scale when tested. He worked as a bouncer in Long Island for 20 years while developing his Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe about the relationship of reality and the mind
Oo4pe TIL a substitute teacher in Ohio was convicted of four felony counts and sentenced to 90 days in jail along with 3 years of probation, for showing a high school Spanish class the 2012 horror film “The ABCs of Death”.