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TIL that nematodes make up 80% of all life on earth, making the average number of legs per animal to be 0.1

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yQPaM TIL the title of Frasier's Theme Song (Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs) was because "these were things that were 'mixed up' … like Frasier Crane's patients."
R7EwQ TIL that all Formula 1 cars must be fitted with a wood plank on their undercarriage prior to each race. The plank enforces a minimum clearance on the cars and is examined following the race for excessive wearing, which would indicate a violation of clearance rules.
R7RB1 TIL that SAS veteran Bob Curry used a sledgehammer to break a window of the Iranian Embassy in 1980 after an explosive charge failed to go off. He then (with the help of his team) rescued 25 of the 26 hostages held in the building.
RDP7 TIL the word ‘you’ was once used only for two or more people, and 'thee’, 'thou’, 'thy’ etc referred to just one person.
6ELyw TIL that China has restricted the use of geographic systems to only specific authorized entities, causing crowdsourced mapping efforts such as OpenStreetMap to be unlawful. They use a specific coordinate system known as GCJ-02, that intentionally offset places from their true location.