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TIL that digital data can be encoded into DNA, by assigning combinations of 1's and 0's to the building blocks of genes, for eg. 01 = T, 00 = A, and some scientists see it as the future of data storage

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LkLJr TIL that Britain drained 45 trillion dollars in today's money during their rule in India leaving the country dirt poor. By running what is known as a scam-theft on a grand scale.
7rgKZ TIL the man in Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' is not the one screaming, nature is. Munch says it depicts "a vast infinite scream through nature" that he felt. Because of the red skies in Norway at the time some believe that The Scream was from the Krakatoa Eruption.
Wk4Po TIL Joe Rogan is second cousins with Gerard and Mikey Way of My Chemical Romance
GdKN TIL that Google made a detailed, interactive map of the galaxy in HTML5, just to see if they could.
4np5 TIL Bonnie and Clyde were shot so many times that the undertaker had difficulty embalming the bodies because all of the fluid kept leaking out.