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TIL General Electric was one of the first members of Dow Index in 1895, and the last to remain there until 2018.

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OoDa4 TIL In 2016, a British man crowdfunded a ten hour film of paint drying in order to force the British Board of Film Classification to watch it, as part of a protest against it. This is due to independent filmmakers needing to pay £1,000 per submission in order to be certified. The film received a U.
nL59 TIL lebanese star Mia Khalifa has been received death threats, including having her head cut off for doing porn
K0jR TIL that the largest virus in the world has been called the Pandoravirus. They bore no morphological or genomic resemblance to any previously defined virus families leading the researchers to speculate that this virus may represent a previously unknown branch of the tree of life.
xyaB TIL that the UN logo is centred around the North Pole to avoid any one country/continent being more prominent
AmRl TIL One researcher estimates that with current technology it would take 10,000 automated microscopes thirty years to map the connections between every neuron in a human brain, and 100 million terabytes of disk space to store the data.