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TIL there’s a coast-to-coast hiking trail that connects Delaware and California

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VBADQ TIL Gaetan Dugas, supposed "Patient Zero" of the US AIDS epidemic, wasn't that, according to a 2016 genetic study. The "0" was originally letter "O" for "Out of California" in a 1984 study, and because he was more helpful in naming partners, there was likely also "ascertainment bias" in blaming him.
OobmY TIL that the colour orange was named after the fruit, not the other way around.
Rdw4 TIL the average human sperm cell or spermocyte contains about 37.5Mb of genetic data. So when orgasm occurs, roughly 1.5Gb of data is ‘ejaculated’ in about 3 seconds, a data transfer rate 6 orders of magnitude, or a few million times, faster than an average internet connection.
Y7xev TIL of Säkkijärven polkka. A Finnish folk-song played repeatedly over radio during the Soviet-Finnish War to block radio-controlled mines
ZR1G TIL that in Santa Fe, New Mexico a nameless stranger came out of nowhere, built a mysterious staircase in a church out of foreign wood and primitive tools. It is thought by the nuns of that church that the carpenter was Saint Joseph.