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TIL A cloud typically weighs 1.1 million pounds
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TIL of a band called Ok Go, who stored one of their albums on DNA by converting their audio into binary code, and then converting the binary into genetic code, which was then "inscribed" onto genetic material.
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TIL about Lonesome George, a Pinta Island tortoise who was the last of his kind before dying in 2012. Researchers tried to have George mate with other tortoises throughout his entire life, but all attempts were unsuccessful.
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TIL Pripyat amusement park never officially opened and was to open just five days after the disaster
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TIL the most dangerous job in the United States is that of the logger, with 110 deaths per 100,000
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TIL Eating meat and cooking food is how humans got their big brains