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TIL that 21st century humans grow taller, and reach sexual maturity earlier than ever before in recorded history

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e0aPE TIL: Brushing your teeth can significantly reduce your risk of having a heart attack or stroke.
neDVb TIL that most Confederate statues were raised long after the Civil War by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in an effort to further the Lost Cause alternate version of history.
JYX9j TIL about zip bombs, large files that get compressed down to kilobytes, in order to render a system useless while unpacking them. A well known example is 42.zip, which uses some of the common methods to create a zip bomb, like repetition and nested .zip files.
jRBp TIL there’s an equivalent to Godwin’s Law for gun ownership debates called Markley’s Law: As an online discussion of gun owners’ rights grows longer, the probability of an ad hominem attack involving penis size approaches 1
e0b1D TIL That DNA computing, using DNA, biochemistry and molecular biology instead of traditional silicone based technologies used in computers is a thing