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TIL that a single gram of DNA can theoretically store 215 petabytes of data

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GwOj TIL: 1200 construction workers have died on-site since Qatar got the World Cup.
mj0R TIL that human zoos were a popular attraction throughout Europe and the United States as late as the 1950s. These attractions depicted africans and american natives as wild animals; some allowed spectators to throw bananas into the cages to feed the “savages.” NSFW
LkRbr TIL that King Henry V survived being shot in the face by an arrow when he was the their to the throne.
a5vA TIL that when the Oxford College was founded, a grove of oaks had been planted to replace the beams in the dining hall. This plan had been passed down from one Forester to the next for over five hundred years saying “You don’t cut them oaks. Them’s for the College Hall.”
W1YY TIL that in 2010 men were “forced to penetrate” 1,267,000 times (page 29), nearly as many times as women were raped (1,270,000 times; page 28)