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TIL that more than 99 percent of all species that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct.

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P1aee TIL The depiction of the Buddha as human comes from the adoption of Greek art in Greek Bactrian and Indian kingdoms. The earlier Mauryans depicted the Buddha as a symbol in their art.
DAjY TIL: That Jimmy McMillan, founder of the Rent is Too Damn High Party, was a Vietnam war veteran, R&B recording artist, private investigator and mail carrier.
J1apk TIL: Certain US college athletes can buy insurance to protect against future loss of earnings as a pro due to disabling injury during college
XEbbr TIL: The "air" puffing-up most potato chips bags is actually not air. It's nitrogen. Chemical reactions with regular air would hurt the taste. Also, typical snacks bags are a high-tech sandwich of polypropylene, a possible thin coating of aluminum, and polyethylene (grocery-bag plastic).
M8eK TIL that in 1932 a riot invaded Newfoundland’s government building. The prime minister barely escaped injury and resigned. In 1933 the country—like Canada, an independent English-speaking country neighboring the US—gave up self-government and voluntarily became a British colony again.