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TIL about the Minnesota project. In WWII 36 conscientious objectors semi-starved to gain insights into its effects

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D1Yrv TIL Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, predicted in a 1995 InfoWorld article that the Internet would "catastrophically collapse" in 1996, and promising to "eat his words" if wrong. In 1997, he put his article in a blender and drank it at the International World Wide Web Conference.
M7kXK TIL that fossilization is so unlikely that scientists estimate that less one-tenth of 1% of all the animal species that have ever lived have become fossils.
yVN8l TIL: In South Korea, some stores carry "one a day" bananas which are packaged in order of ripeness
5Y4Wp TIL that in September 1985 John Denver, Dee Snider, and Frank Zappa testified before a US Senate committee in opposition to warning labels on records notifying consumers of explicit lyrical content involving sex and violence.
KORvG TIL that it is a myth that more people are alive today than have ever lived. It is estimated that 50-100 billion or more are believed to have already died yet there are currently around 7 billion people alive. Not surprisingly TIL often says "There are more people alive now than ever lived"...Nope.