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Today I Learned That DNA can hold up to 455 exabytes (Or 455 MILLION gigabytes) of data!

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wL85M TIL The Scooby Doo Movie (2002) was originally meant to be PG-13 and have a much darker tone and have a heavy emphasis on marijuana jokes. After receiving bad feedback, they cut it into the family friendly movie it became. In 2017 it was revealed that an R-rated cut exists of the movie.
yVe4J TIL Japan has a 'wind phone'. An unconnected phone booth where grieving relatives go to 'talk' to their lost loved ones. Opened after the 2011 Fukushima earthquake/tsunami, it has seen over 30,000 visitors.
Oo654 TIL in 2010, Nestlé refused to watch a documentary about child slave labor in the cocoa industry and their involvement in it. In response, the film's director set up a large screen next to Nestle’s headquarters in Switzerland playing the film.
BggWd TIL that the topic of the first ever radio communication on board an aircraft in flight, was a cat. In 1910, Kiddo the cat snuck on board an airship, and ended up travelling with the ship during its entire 71-hour journey. Kiddo was adopted by the daughter of one of the airmen.
QJZJd Til of Gwangju Massacre in 1980 where hundred of civilians and students were killed by the dictatorship army.