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

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Oo8K1 TIL of Iron Mike, who was targeted by 5 men wanting to collect life insurance by staging his accidental death. Unaware of the plot, Mike unknowingly survived numerous attempts including ingesting rat poison, getting hit by a car, and sleeping outside in -14 °F (-26 °C) weather while soaked in water.
PY8Kg TIL that Dutch inventor Philip Nitschke also known as “Dr. Death” has created the worlds first suicide pod known as the “Sarco”. A button is pressed and the capsule is filled with nitrogen. The person will feel a bit dizzy but will then rapidly lose consciousness and die.
Z868a TIL pizza was invented in Naples, Italy. Since 2004, Italian law insists Neapolitan pizza must include wheat flour, flour yeast, mineral water, peeled tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, sea salt & olive oil to be considered pizza.
xe0w TIL UPS gets 15,000 parking tickets in New York a month
kOOG1 TIL: A human head transplant is planned to happen in China in the next few months. The main method is freezing the head before re-attaching it to an entirely new body.