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TIL that the entire internet is controlled by 14 people who hold 7 keys to the global Domain Name System (DNS) that controls the domain names of every site.

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X04W8 TIL about Denny (Denisova 11), the only fossil ever discovered from a first-generation Neanderthal-Denisovan offspring
w0Z1 TIL Bananas produce antimatter at the rate of one positron every 75 minutes.
W76dY TIL that the pathogen Streptococcus Group A literally wears the "skin" of red blood cells that it's killed, to camouflage itself from the immune system.
XELmX TIL that during a 1973 Rolling Stones tour of Australia Keith Richards lived with a single mother and her son for a week, taking care of the baby while the mother was at work stating that "There's somebody in a suburb in Melbourne who doesn't even know I wiped his ass.".
XE4M6 TIL that while living in China for his profession in mining, Herbert Hoover was trapped in Tianjin by the Boxer Rebellion. While there, he helped guide US Marines unfamiliar with the terrain and may have rescued Chinese children caught in the crossfire.