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TIL that with approximately 38 trillion microbial cells compared to 30 trillion human cells, our bodies are more microbial than human.

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69mlX TIL Kim Dotcom, founder of the controversial Megaupload, was once the world’s top-ranked Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 player. Before his 2012 arrest in New Zealand, he achieved the highest cumulative score in free-for-all mode out of over 15 million players worldwide.
APx4 TIL that The Dark Knight was the first Batman movie to not have the word Batman in the title and also to not have any bats throughout the film
DGBv TIL Under the Soviet Union, the distribution of Beatles albums was forbidden by the government, so some medical students would burn Beatles songs onto old X-rays.
Lpv0 TIL Atilla The Hun died from drunkingly choking on his own blood. He was buried in secret, in a river. His body was placed inside of 3 coffins, one of each made of gold, silver, and iron. Those who buried him were then killed so that nobody would know where the grave was.
NXEdQ TIL: The first smart home with a central control panel was released in 1975. Instead of communicating with smart devices wirelessly, it was physically hard wired throughout the house directly into the smart devices.