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TIL: the Sun accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System

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X04L8 TIL that Beetles are the Dominant Form of Life on Earth, as One of every Five living Species is a Beetle. Making them the largest Group in the Animal Kingdom.
D1XDY TIL That the ARA General Belgrano that was sunk during the Falklands War (1982) between Argentina and the United Kingdom, was at anchor at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (1942).
nWEBb TIL the "Aztecs" never referred to themselves as that. They called themselves the Mexica (Me-SHEE-ka). The modern use of "Aztec" was coined by a Prussian Scholar in 1810, and derives from a term meaning "people from Aztlan", a mythical place of origin for several ethnic groups in central Mexico.
68rX TIL In 2002 George Harrison knocked Aaliyah off the top spot in the UK singles chart, the first time that one deceased artist had replaced another at number one.
LrMZ TIL naturalist Chris Packham said he would “eat the last panda if I could have all the money we have spent on panda conservation put back on the table for me to do more sensible things with.”