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TIL that Superman is due to enter the public domain by 2033.

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rmPy TIL that in Chernobyl they planted hemp to remove toxins from the soil in a process that’s called “phytoremediation”
Awwn TIL The size of the human genome is 3.2GB. The smallest known vertebrate genome is that of puffer fish (390MB), the largest is that of the lungfish (130GB).
4XyNX TIL The largest hula hoop ever hula hooped was 17ft wide andhula hooped by Getti Kehayova
Vwa4 TIL that female bedbugs don’t have vaginas and that male bedbugs have to make one with a razor-like penis to breed
oRJPW TIL that people who attempted suicide are seven times more likely to die from heart disease before age 40