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TIL that 2g of DNA could hold all digitally stored information in the world

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4GlJ TIL The US military sends its doctors to Chicago to give them practice for gunshot wounds
lob5N TIL Kenney Jones, the man who replaced Keith Moon in The Who, was with Moon during the last night of his life.
GYXJG TIL that before Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide, he helped free a Colorado woman who was convicted of murder despite her being handcuffed in the back of a police car at the time. She would have served a life sentence without parole and was freed just one month after his death.
0dmPN TIL Giovanni Villani's chronicle documenting the history of Italy from ancient times until his contemporary 14th century ominously ends mid sentence as the author was describing the effects of the black death. The author himself also died of the plague
Bry0D TIL a hypnic jerk is a brief and sudden involuntary contraction of the muscles of the body which occurs when a person (not only me apparently) is beginning to fall asleep, often causing the person to jump and awaken suddenly for a moment