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TIL that Researchers have calculated that DNA has a 521 year half-life, meaning the oldest clone-able samples of DNA could be no more than 2 million years old, ruling out any possibility of ever replicating dinosaurs, as the youngest dinosaurs were around more than 65 million years ago.

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E1NAP TIL that the lyrics in Le Freak by CHIC originally contained the words “fuck off” rather then “freak out”. They got the idea after being denied entry to a club and the bouncer told them to “fuck off”. The lyrics were changed since they couldn’t say fuck on the radio.
4WNJ TIL Australia has a tradition called “democracy sausage” where poll workers have a sausage sizzle outside the polling place
9YreQ TIL of Tetris syndrome, which happens when you play a game too long and start to dream and hallucinate about it.
Eg1lP TIL promoter's in the early1970's made up a fictional start date of 1916 for the annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. The real start was 1972.
epDQL TIL that during World War 2, aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and general Charles De Gaulle despised each other, causing his works to be banned in both Free France and Vichy France. As a result, The Little Prince was first published in the United States, and only was published in France after WW2.