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TIL That Approximately 107 Billion People Are Believed to Have Lived on Earth

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nevw9 TIL that a full operating system and a film were stored on DNA and recovered with no errors
a8AO9 TIL rusty objects don’t give you tetanus, but a bacteria found in soil. That’s why we associate a rusty nail found in soil with tetanus. A random rusty chair is just a random rusty chair
voXK TIL: Woolly mammoths were still around when they were building the pyramids. In school they taught woolly mammoths were around during the ice age, tens if thousands of years ago, in fact they were around a lot longer than that, up until 1700B.C. 900 years after the first pyramid began construction.
78wLp TIL that in South Korea in 2023, more pet strollers were sold than baby strollers.
MegyW TIL astronauts returning from space report higher concern with Universalism, Spirituality and references to "values orientated toward the collective good".