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TIL the marbled lungfish's genome contains 133 billion base pairs, making it the largest known genome of any vertebrate

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7814p TIL- Pocahontas had one son with her second husband John Rolfe. That son, had one daughter named Jane Rolfe. In 1887, a book was published that found that Pocahontas had thousands of descendants. That number has more recently been updated to reveal over 30,000 named descendants.
b4LN TIL that existential depression is a certain type of depression that arises when an individual confronts certain basic issues of their existence. To over simplify, simply living makes people not want to live.
E1n6W TIL honey made from poisonous flowers was used to defeat an invading Roman army in 67 B.C.
R7x06 TIL guitarist Brian Setzer bought the entire inventory of guitar amp tubes from a company that was going out of business in the 80s, which gives him a unique guitar tone that is impossible to exactly replicate.
JYEKQ TIL: Chemists Frank Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina were ridiculed by representatives of the aerosol and halocarbon industries for their hypothesis that CFCs would lead to depletion of the ozone layer. The chair of DuPont called it: "a science fiction tale...a load of rubbish...utter nonsense".