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TIL by calculating the number of synapses and neurons, the human brain has been estimated to hold up to 2.5 petabytes of information

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6EpY8 TIL of an elegy “Requiem” written over three decades and is known as the best known poetry work about Soviet Great Terror.
EAko TIL U.S. courts have ruled that inmates, parolees, and probationers cannot be ordered to attend AA. Though AA itself was not deemed a religion, it was ruled that it contained enough religious components to make coerced AA attendance a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
eEnL TIL the rebounding force of a rope breaking in a match of tug of war severed the arm of each of the men at the front
woY5o TIL during ww2 acclaimed tv Chef Julia Child was on the team that invented shark repellent to keep sharks away from sea mines intended for German U- Boats. This marked Child's first foray into the world of cooking.
EgDw7 TIL John Rambo, character in First Blood and the Rambo series of films, was named by the author after a variety of apple.