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

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BgL5e TIL that Gene Kelly was sick while filming the iconic scene from “Singin’ in the rain”.
9vGQ TIL that before going on to be in Rage Against the Machine, guitarist Tom Morello was a male stripper.
dDZj8 TIL Coco Chanel was a Nazi Agent in WWIi Paris
bpWj TIL the most powerful gangs in the United States have a presence in the US military. Gangster Disciples, Crips, Bloods, 18th Street, Nortenos, Black Disciples, Surenos, Latin Kings, Vice Lords, African Nations, Aryan Nations, Aryan Brotherhood and Ku Klux Klan graffiti has been documented in Iraq.
9YaOr TIL that the final Confederate surrender of the US Civil War took place on the River Mersey, in Liverpool, England, when a Confederate warship (CSS Shenandoah) learned of the North’s victory while abroad.