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

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GAnjE TIL Rifleman Khan was a German Shepherd dog awarded the Dickin medal in WW2 for saving his handler from drowning after their landing craft was sunk by artillery fire
1Z1W TIL In 1951 a poor woman named Henrietta Lacks donated her cells to science without knowing it. Her cells would be the first “immortal cells” that could be kept alive for medical use. They’ve been used for everything from creating the polio vaccine to cloning.
8aykP TIL In 2019, a hipster complained to MIT Technology Review for using his picture to imply hipsters look the same, end up discovering the picture was of an entirely different hipster
gML04 TIL putting your hands on your knees after an intense HIIT session is actually better for you than putting your hands on your head, contrary to what coaches have been espousing all these years.
5MKB TIL that in the 60s, most people used just one Alka-Seltzer tablet at a time. They created the popular “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz” jingle to encourage people to use two tablets — sales nearly doubled.