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TIL Van Gogh sold a total of one painting during his lifetime
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TIL many Japanese still use clam-shell flip-phones, which “are called Galápagos phones because they evolved perfectly for an isolated environment.” The flip-phones are advanced enough & come with features locked into a Japan-only ecosystem that many customers are slow to adopt smartphones.
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TIL that the most senior officer to survive the sinking of Titanic, Charles Lightoller, went onto serve in World War I where he rammed a German U-boat as commander of HMS Garry, and helped evacuate British soldiers from Dunkirk in World War II
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TIL of the Yottabyte, the largest known multiple of byte, 1 YB = 10008bytes = 1024bytes = 1000000000000000000000000bytes = 1000 zettabytes = 1 trillion terabytes. Since the radius of Holmium is 233 pm, an atomic memory device could store one yottabyte in an area roughly the size of a nickel.
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TIL that male homosexual penguins have been documented to mate for life, build nests together, and even use a rock as a surrogate egg.
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TIL Chimps are given human birth control pills in zoos. Human birth control also works on gorillas.