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TIL at least 90% of human genome is non-functional and commonly referred to as "junk DNA"

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P1kw TIL: during the Irish Potato Famine, Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I sent three ships of food and £1,000 to the Irish - he would have sent £10,000 but Queen Victoria advised against it as she had only given £2,000
Br4k TIL That www.Whitehouse.com was a porn website until 2004.
oWrE TIL the A-10 “Warthog” is designed to fly with one engine, one tail, one elevator, and half of one wing missing.
XE5D6 TIL in Quito, Ecuador, a group of vigilantes known as “Acciōn Ortogrāfica Quito” go around correcting all the bad grammar they find in graffiti.
epg65 TIL in March 1849, an enslaved man named Henry Brown shipped himself to freedom in a 3-foot by 2-foot crate from his master’s home in Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, earning himself the nickname “Box”