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TIL that 99.8% of all matter that exists in our solar system is the Sun. Which means all things on the earth, that makes up the earth and all other planets and moons only make up 0.2%

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BrEQy TIL some birds in Australia have learnt to take flaming sticks from wildfires and carry them to other areas of woodland, in order to flush out prey.
LO79 TIL Oxford University is requesting the help of the general public to help and decipher 7 ancient languages.
j6d0M TIL about the Egyptian god Bes, protector of good things and households, whose depiction differs from the other Egyptian gods in that he faces forward rather than a side profile.
5YEg8 TIL of Violette Morris, a world-class athlete in many sports. A lesbian, she had a mastectomy 'in order to fit into a racing car more easily'. She lost her license (and her chance at the 1928 Olympics) because of her 'loose morals'. She was killed in 1944 by the French Resistance.
V7Z8 TIL the inventor of the floppy disk, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, would nearly drown himself to death in order to come up with ideas, believing the lack of oxygen would help him think creatively.