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TIL: An exabyte (one million terabytes) is so large that it is estimated that 'all words ever spoken or written by all humans that have ever lived in every language since the very beginning of mankind would fit on just 5 exabytes.'

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Eg1G7 TIL that the oil-producing cartel OPEC hasn't really had any power to set oil prices since the 1980s. OPEC members regularly cheat on their production quotas and mostly only commit to what they were going to do anyway, in the absence of OPEC.
kJ0b1 TIL the annual probability of an obese person attaining normal weight was 1 in 210 for men and 1 in 124 for women, increasing to 1 in 1290 for men and 1 in 677 for women with morbid obesity.
VMddk TIL A two-page glossary of key terms and phrases was handed out to moviegoers in select screenings of Dune. Universal assumed that the extensive lore and mythology of David Lynch's adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel would be lost on audiences unfamiliar with it's universe
xYBw TIL: If you’re a man and pee on a pregnancy test and it’s positive, you probably have cancer.
KOvR4 TIL that the Catholic Church is one of the wealthiest religious organizations in the world, with an "unknown" net worth