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TIL That Naturally Occurring Ice Is Technically A Mineral

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Wnk9 TIL that Democrats were red and Republicans were blue until the year 2000
98mG TIL it would take ~14.5 Quadrillion Lego pieces to make a minifigure sized earth.
YQnv TIL the largest Air Force in the world is the US Air Force. The second largest Air Force in the world is the US Navy/Marine Corps.
OoyN6 TIL The ampersand (&) was the 27th letter of the alphabet as a ligature of the letters 'e' and 't' to form the Latin word 'et' meaning 'and'. So the alphabet would go X,Y,Z and And. So to distinguish it from the rest, children started to say 'and per say and' which later evolved into 'ampersand'.
rAWw TIL that nearly 100% of those older than 60 years of age are diagnosed with herpes of the eye at autopsy.