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TIL that a new radio telescope being built in Australia and South Africa will generate so much data about space that it will exceed global internet traffic by a large margin. An exabyte per day of raw data, which could be compressed to around 10 petabytes.

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EB9W TIL that around roughly 4 pounds of your body weight is the weight of trillions of microorganisms in your gut
ZVEo TIL Montezuma’s family received yearly payments from the Mexican government from the 16th century until 1938.
PYg7Z TIL There's a zip file titled '42.zip'. It's known as a zip bomb or 'zip of death' because it's original size is only 42 kilobytes. But when it's uncompressed, it expands to 4.5 petabytes (4,500,000 gigabytes), crashing the antivirus program and then the system.
XE4Yk TIL of the "Petticoat duel"; in 1792, Lady Almeria Braddock challenged Mrs. Elphinstone to a duel in London's Hyde Park over remarks the latter made about the former's true age; they duelled with pistols, then with swords, until Mrs. E agreed to write Lady A an apology.
VWJ0 TIL that Humans will create more information in the form of data in the next 2 days than was created in all of history up until the year 2003.