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TIL There are more stars than grains of sand on all the beaches but there are more molecules than that in 10 drops of water

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nrPP TIL Elvis once bought a random stranger a car after he saw her admiring his custom limo while it was parked at a car dealership
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Lk9X0 TIL that the ability to pronounce letters "F" and "V" came from the ancient switch to soft food which resulted in an overbite that resulted in how we say things today.
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OGGm7 TIL that roughly 99% of the world's population will be in daylight on July 8th at 7:15am ET. About 6.4 billion people will be in daytime while 1.2 billion will be in twilight.