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TIL The total weight of all ants combined is greater than the total weight of all humans combined

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EgKno TIL the San Diego-Coronado Bridge is the 2nd most used bridge for suicide in the US trailing only the Golden Gate Bridge.
589k TIL: It takes the Earth (and the Sun) 226 million years to orbit around the Milky Way Galaxy. Which means Earth has made the orbit around our galaxy about 20 times since the planet is 4.5 billion years old.
O7r7 TIL Sean Schemmel, the English voice actor for Goku in the Dragon Ball series once screamed so hard during a recording for a Super Saiyan 4 transformation that he passed out.
d5Nr TIL in 1971, the United states established a military base without consent of the native population. Measures to convince the natives to leave included restricting their food & medical supplies, as well as killing their dogs in front of them.
b9NPQ TIL: Jim Carey used to get to do stand up in his 7th grade class. He used humor to fit in and his teacher made a deal with him - if he was quiet all day he would get 15 minutes at the end of class where he did stand up using material from life, the class, or doing impressions of faculty members.