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TIL the Sun holds 99.8% of our solar system's total mass!

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xV0v5 TIL that in the early days of rock and roll, country music was often non-derisively referred to as "hillbilly" music. After country artists incorporated rock techniques into their own style, they created a new combination of rock and hillbilly that came to be called Rockabilly.
16OMO TIL Kaluga (Huso dauricus), also known as the river beluga, is a large predatory sturgeon found in the Amur River basin. With a maximum size of at least 1,000 kg (2,205 lb) and 5.6 m (18.6 ft), the kaluga is one of the biggest of the sturgeon family.
OwL7 TIL A one pound onion has 191 calories, a Blooming Onion from Outback Steakhouse has 1954 calories.
rN66W TIL, it is probable that severe bleeding hemorrhoids were the cause of the death of the Scottish explorer David Livingstone at the end of his third African journey
0v01 TIL that Pablo Picasso was questioned as a possible suspect when the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911.