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TIL Prior to human settlement New Zealand had no land-based mammals apart from three bat species

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dvd8 TIL Just 1 gram of DNA is theoretically capable of holding 455 exabytes – enough for all the data held by Google, Facebook and every other major tech company, with room to spare
5YOB9 TIL that Wilson the Volleyball from the movie Castaway was inspired when screenwriter William Broyles, Jr deliberately stranded himself for one week on an isolated beach in the Sea of Cortez in which a volleyball washed up on shore.
YpAn7 TIL A synthesizer repairman accidentally had a 9-hour acid trip after picking at a crystalline structure on an old sythesizer from the 60s which turned out to be LSD. A LSD researcher explained that LSD can remain potent for decades and be absorbed through the skin.
NX8k1 TIL by the time the New York Yankees won their first World Series in 1923, not only had Babe Ruth come from the Red Sox, but half the Yankee position players and 4 out of 5 of their pitching rotation had been acquired from Boston in trades.
0wdEy TIL China are genuinely implementing a Black Mirror style 'Citizen Score' system where you will be ranked against your peers to determine if you are a good citizen or not. Your score will also be affected by the types of people you socialize with.