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TIL that scientists had to rename as many as 27 human genes because Microsoft Excel kept misreading their symbols as dates

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5jGD TIL : 30 years ago you had 17 minutes to escape a house fire. Today, it’s down to 3-4 minutes
Z86PG TIL: Beethoven loved his coffee so much that he had his own recipe. It consisted of 60 beans. Not 59, not 61, but precisely 60. He would drop them into a cup separately and sometimes do a second recount. He also had a special apparatus for preparing it.
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