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TIL that masturbation was a capital crime in the Puritan colony of New Haven, Connecticut

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5WNk TIL that CEO Nancy Brinker of the Susan B. Komen foundation – the charity that raises breast cancer awareness by distributing pink ribbons – made $684,000 last year.
5Vr7p TIL The Original Star Trek's theme song had lyrics.
ew94 TIL that incompetent people don’t know they’re incompetent and completely overestimate their abilities, while truly competent people are filled with doubts and often underestimate their own abilities - it’s called the Dunning Kruger effect.
aw11N TIL sharks can expel the entire contents of their stomach by literally forcing the stomach inside-out all the way past its teeth. This is called 'stomach eversion' and it's a way to get rid of indigestible objects but occasionally the stomach is unable to retract, which can be fatal.
dvd8 TIL Just 1 gram of DNA is theoretically capable of holding 455 exabytes – enough for all the data held by Google, Facebook and every other major tech company, with room to spare