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TIL Octopus can literally edit their RNA according to change in temperature of the surroundings.

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8aXbZ TIL of Robert Hubert, who was accused of causing the Great Fire of London. He declared that he had thrown a grenade through a window into the bakery where it had started. Yet, he hadn’t been in England, the bakery didn’t have any windows, and he was a cripple. He was still executed.
grm8 TIL that Jose M. Hernandez went from migrant worker to astronaut. He’s currently running for congress in California at the urging of the president.
N80e TIL if you were executed in 19th century England they cut you open and the public could walk by to have a look. The executioner also got to keep your trousers and stockings.
6PPl TIL The US government is building a center to record all online information and communication on earth. It can house all the data on earth ~40 times over and is on the scale of yottabytes. 1 yottabyte=1 trillion terabytes. It is scheduled to be completed Sep. 2013
jN7En TIL two of the greatest Christmas movies ever, 'Elf' and 'Love Actually', both opened in theaters on the same day--November 7, 2003. That week, 'The Matrix Revolutions' was the #1 movie. 'Elf' opened at #2. And, 'Love Actually' at #6.