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TIL that Madagascar has faster internet speeds than Canada
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TIL: Sylvester Stallone has spent 50 years writing and re-writing a screenplay about 'Edgar Allan Poe'. The script pre-dates Rocky and is the actor/writer/director's passion project.
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TIL a 1995 experiment by Oberholzer et al showed DNA replication inside tiny spherical lipid bilayer structures called liposomes (similar to cell membranes)- mimicing early cellular conditions. They showed that DNA replication, through the polymerase chain reaction, can occur within these liposomes.
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TIL pennies and nickels cost more to produce than their face value. The United States has lost nearly half a billion dollars minting pennies and nickels over the past 3 years(2021-2023).
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TIL “step on a crack, break your mothers back” was originally the more offensive “step on a crack, turn your mother black”
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TIL that head injuries were so common on Pennyfarthing bicycles that riders would put their feet over the handlebar when going downhill so that they would be thrown off feet-first instead of head-first.