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TIL that 25% of all known animal species are beetles

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wBy8 TIL A customer was gifted overgenerous contract terms due to a misplaced comma in a contract with aerospace giant Lockheed Martin. The erroneous comma radically altered the inflation-adjustment formula resulting in $70 million loss to Lockheed Martin.
ErrV TIL an iron pillar in Delhi(made of 98% wrought iron) has stood for at least 1600 years without rusting or corroding.
mxEKE TIL expensive weddings usually end in divorce.
lewA TIL Bill Murray invented the phrase “you’re toast” to mean “you’re screwed” while ad-libbing in Ghostbusters
LkLVP TIL that in the same way helium can make your voice go high-pitched by breathing helium, you can make your voice go deep by breathing Sulfur hexafluoride