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TIL, 5 exabytes of information was created between 12k BC and 2003 AD. But that rate has gone up to every two days by 2003. An exabyte is 1,024 petabytes, while a petabyte is 1,024 terabytes.

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61OX TIL that during Passover, Coca-Cola sells coke with sugar instead of corn syrup in areas with a substantial Jewish population because corn syrup isn’t kosher.
LQbWQ TIL: why Election Day in the US is on a Tuesday: so farmers could get to the polls and still have time to get their crops to market.
BrraK TIL that before whistles were introduced, hockey referees used a cowbell. They had to switch to whistles when fans started bringing their own cowbells to disrupt game play.
PY7MG TIL after the Suez Canal was completed, species from the Red Sea used it to migrate to the Mediterranean and became invasive. This phenomenon is called the Lessepsian migration, after the builder of the Canal, Ferdinand de Lesseps
ADMB4 TIL of Distichlis palmeri, a grain plant with a high salt tolerance. Until recently it was thought to be extinct. But a breeding program of the remaining plants has bred varieties with yields of 2 tons per hectare, and is a strong candidate to become a major global food crop.