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TIL the world's first self-replicating synthetic organism also contains brainteasers written into its genetic code. Hidden inside its DNA are the names of its creators and famous quotes by James Joyce, Robert Oppenheimer, and Richard Feynman. There is also a URL address for those who crack the code.

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Lklpp TIL Jim Henson’s original version of Kermit the Frog was a madman who murdered his friend over and over again for not liking coffee.
GXZQ TIL that there is an opera being developed for Broadway that is the telling of Jesus’s life using only Britney Spears songs
oj18 TIL in 1993 Egyptologists sent a small rover through one of the Air Shafts of the Great Pyramid. The rover came in contact with a stone door with two copper handles attached. To this day, the door has not been opened and now one knows where it leads
pYYpG TIL that pigeons got awarded medals for their service in WW2
rR7MM TIL that the 1980s pop song 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' was banned from being broadcast on the BBC between 1990 and 1991 because it was feared to have anti-Gulf War themes