› added 6 hours ago

TIL that scientists sequencing ancient Siberian permafrost found microbial genomes from layers 26,000 - 120,000 years old, and some were so intact that they appear to come from bacteria still alive and slowly repairing their DNA while frozen.

Read more microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com

via reddit.com

DQ7oJ Today I learned Forest Gump was based off a book.
QP5E TIL India doesn’t actually account for 12.1% of Reddit traffic and it’s not even close to that.
P19rg TIL the Supreme Court established "the reindeer rule" determining that sufficient secular elements can counterbalance religious components in a public display, meaning that municipalities include reindeer in addition to religious holiday displays to avoid violating the First Amendment.
9Z1m TIL that the NFL cannot host games on Fridays or Saturdays until late December as federal law prohibits professional football leagues from competing with college or high school football, which typically host games on those days.
M7peA TIL the Mbabram (a formally isolated and now extinct Australian Aboriginal language) used the word “dog” to mean “dog”. The word evolved completely independently of the English one out of pure coincidence and the two are in no way related.