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TIL the memory capacity of a human brain is one petabyte (1,000 terabytes).

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EX7p TIL: Early in colonization, “Disposable Ships” were a type of craft built for a single voyage, after which they would be disassembled, the wood reused to build actual ships. Some disposables were the largest ships ever built.
XEKYR TIL Golden Bat was one of the earliest superheroes in fiction; predating Batman & Superman, and was an 10,000 magic Atlantean skeleton who fought evil with a cane.
DQDXJ TIL that it would take ~18months to walk the Great Wall of China 🇨🇳
vPGdx TIL that in the 1600s, Venetians fighting to lifting the siege of Candia considered infecting Ottoman soldiers with plague by attacking them with a liquid made from the spleens and buboes of plague victims. It was never carried out.
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