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TIL that there are estimated to be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 individual ants alive on Earth at any given time, with their biomass outweighing all humans and marine fish combined

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WK5d TIL that most American’s don’t have electric kettles in their kitchens to boil water.
657Y TIL when Stephen Hawking gave a lecture in Japan he was asked not to mention the possible re-collapse of the universe, billions of years into the future, for fears of the effects on the stock exchange
v1ryx TIL that Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' wasn't originally intended to be presented as a work of fiction. His editor rejected the manuscript believing it would cause widespread panic, given that Jack the ripper was active in London at the time. The version we read starts on page 102 of the original script.
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mxjZM TIL that in 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in space that was 100 times more powerful than Hiroshima. The aftereffects eventually caused six or more satellites to fail, as radiation damaged their solar arrays.