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TIL of Male Michrochimism. Women retain living male DNA in their brains...

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jNmxR TIL Australia bans nuclear power plants, but at the same time export enough uranium to produce the equivalent of 97% of its domestic electricity (which is 80% from fossil)
VKD8 TIL in 2007, there was a horrific accident in Tieling, China, where thirty tons of 1500°C molten steel spilled from a ladle and burst into an adjoining room filled with workers, killing 32. It was China’s most serious steel industry accident since 1949. Bodies had to be identified by DNA testing.
XEXy8 TIL The Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) was a group of computer hardware manufacturers, from 1989 to 2009/2010. This acronym was difficult to say and remember, and was sometimes jokingly referred to as "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms"
6w8W TIL Bayer once gave thousands of people AIDS to preserve their profit margins
Jp51 TIL: In 2006, Mark Zuckerberg turned down a $1 billion deal with Yahoo at the age of 22 saying:“I don’t know what I could do with the money. I’d just start another social networking site. I kind of like the one I already have.”