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TIL Earth is believed to be home to approximately one trillion species, with only a fraction of one percent actually documented.

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QJdYX TIL we're supposed to be wearing sunscreen indoors to protect from UVA rays.
8keZ TIL A helicopter pilot landed on the summit of Everest then did it again the next day to prove it wasn’t a fluke
BNxW TIL that the official world record for “Longest Time Spent Masturbating” is 10 hours and 10 minutes. That record was achieved at the 2012 San Francisco “masturbatae-a-thon”.
8r5a TIL that in 2007 Russian scientists found a cache of 32,000 year old fruit 38 meters(125 ft.) below the permafrost in Siberia that were still viable and when planted grew to be healthy, seed producing plants.
78Rdp TIL there are literal mountains of 'trashed', rentable bikes in china - with a lot of them looking like new