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TIL viruses use compression in their genome

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0wn65 TIL the lyricist for the theme song of the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon (Spider-Man! Spider-Man! Does whatever a spider can!) won three Academy Awards for Best Original Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.
Meokb TIL that in its early days, football was primarily played in colleges and was extremely violent due to the rugby style nature of the rules. It was so violent that in 1905 alone, there were 19 fatalities that US President Teddy Roosevelt threatened to shut down the sport unless changes were made.
v16Jr TIL Worker ants take hundreds of 1-2 minute naps per day, so that they can essentially work around the clock
xVQZg TIL about a single-cell organism called Cafeteria Roenbergensis
v1m08 TIL that the term zombies comes from Haitian folklore, used to describe a dead body reanimated from magic