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TIL 1 sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1587GB in about 3 seconds

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KQo6 TIL that during Prohibition in the United States, Winston Churchill referred publicly to the Constitutional amendment banning alcohol as “an affront to the whole history of mankind.”
eJj5 TIL that a whale’s skull is so thick that it requires a world war 2 anti-tank rifle to euthanize one that has beached itself.
4eZN TIL Jews arrived in India 2500 years ago and unlike many parts of the world, Jews lived in India without any instances of antisemitism from the local majority populace until the Portuguese and British colonized India
jN5XE TIL The world’s first fully-trained paramedics was made up of exclusively young Black men in the 1960s
VMZD4 TIL in 1998 Two set of Family, a Christian from Siberia Russia and the other a Muslim Tajikistan native, got their 1st born daughters accidentally swapped at birth. The mistake was discovered 12 yrs later. The divorced Russian couple went thru DNA test for the settlement of alimony.