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TIL that 25% of all known animals are beetles.

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xVQG1 TIL Irish people believe that Autumn (Fall) starts in August and follow the Gaelic calendar for the seasons.
01y5 TIL while vacationing on a beach in Thailand, a 10 year old girl recognized the signs of a tsunami after learning about them in geology class two weeks prior. Hundreds of beach-goers were evacuated minutes before the devastating tsunami from the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake arrived.
lxGr TIL the grip of a sloth is so strong that sometimes when they die, they are found still clinging to the very branch they were lounging from when they were alive
w4PW TIL that the Sun loses around 4 million tons of mass per second due to fusion
8rxV TIL to save time for workers constructing the new World Trade Center, a Subway restaurant pod was put on hydraulic legs next to tower cranes so that it could be moved up the building as it was built.