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TIL the entire continent of Africa has a smaller GDP than France

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dDm8B TIL the last elementary particle that we know to exist was discovered in 2012 at the CERN in Switzerland, using the Large Hadron Collider. It's called the Higgs boson and it's the particle responsible for "assigning" a mass to other elementary particles.
oGe8 TIL that belief in dragons evolved independently in both Europe and China, and possibly the Americas and Australia as well
5Y86r TIL that life is too short. Live it! Risk and reward, balance those things!
Vrl8 TIL the R2-D2 props used in Star Wars: The Force Awakens were constructed by long-time droid-building hobbyists, one of whom cheekily offered his services to Kathleen Kennedy at a Star Wars convention in 2013
9Yv9G TIL Female Komodo Dragons can impregnate themselves without a male through a process called parthenogenesis. By forcing duplication of sex chromosomes they can give birth to male Komodo Dragons and keep their species alive.