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TIL A single gram of DNA can store almost a zettabyte (one trillion gigabytes) of digital data. And Microsoft is making an investment in DNA data storage.

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KOY9E Scientists Talk About the Possibility of a Zombie Virus
1a9Rr TIL in 1987, an engineer used a new computer program “rwall” to send a message to his university server. Instead, the program broadcasted the message to every user on the internet—including the Pentagon.
JYmPk TIL Brazil has nearly 60,000 murders a year, more than the US, Canada, Australia, all of Europe, China, and many Asian countries combined.
OoNV1 TIL Magical Mystery Tour was largely unscripted - The Beatles simply told the crew and cast to "be on the coach on Monday morning". The movie didn't even have a stunt driver - in the race scene, the bus was driven by Ringo.
XEArE TIL of Hussain al-Shahristani. An Iraqi who was forced into solitary confinement in prison for 8 years under Saddam Hussein. He kept his sanity by “making up mathematical problems, which he then tried to solve.” He later became Iraq’s minister of higher education and scientific research.