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TIL In 2018, Massive Attack encoded an album into synthetic DNA to mark it's 20th anniversary. Spraycans were made with the DNA encoded audio within matt black paint, each can containing approx a million copies of the album

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1ox7 TIL 1994 American-born Israeli Baruch Goldstein, opened fire on unarmed Palestinian Muslims praying inside the Ibrahimi Mosque, killing 29,wounding 125. Up until then Hamas had refused to attack civilian targets inside Israel, and the change in Hamas’ policy was a result of Goldstein’s massacre
L1rp TIL There is a plastic based from hemp that is better by comparison in just about every way to oil based plastic.
EnjV TIL The creator of Pringles was buried in a Pringles can.
l7pA TIL As recently as 10,000 years ago, sloths the size of elephants roamed the Americas.
1aQWr TIL that it was once estimated that Vanna White averages over 600 claps per episode of "Wheel of Fortune."