› added 12 years ago

106

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

Read more wikipedia.org

via bit.ly

xKVo TIL Your biological clock lowers your body temperature at night. There is a reason why getting out of a warm bed is so hard in the morning.
Qpak TIL after the first version of Word was shipped, Microsoft sent the whole developer team to Cancun on vacation
jxxX TIL: People credit Barbara Brocoli for the legendary James Bond films when it was actually Albert R. Brocoli (her father) that was the producer up to Golden Eye (Golden Eye was associate producer).
grZJb TIL that sloths only move an average of 40 yards (36.576 meters) per day when they are on land and in trees. In the water, they could cover that distance in just under 3 minutes.
M7ya8 TIL of the Streisand effect, which is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead backfires by increasing awareness of that information.