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TIL that the value of all the world’s real estate is about $327 trillion, which is almost four times more than global GDP.

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grXZ7 TIL Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was the first film to feature the visuals and sounds of a flushing toilet with the toilet as an integral part of the story.
7G9M TIL Harvard researchers were able to store 700 terabytes of data on a single gram of DNA.
mEoo TIL that some Hiroshima survivors grew “black fingernails,” which were strange rod-shaped fingernails that contained active blood vessels and bled profusely when they broke off.
7rdXb TIL that France has the 3rd largest Nuclear weapons arsenal on Earth behind Russia and the United States.
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