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TIL Oxygen is by far the most common element in the earth’s crust comprising almost half its weight.

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nDLb TIL Astronaut Neil Armstrong took a piece of fabric from the left wing of the Wright Brothers’ 1903 Flyer to the moon aboard the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969.
9w766 TIL Frederick W. Smith, the founder of Fedex, saved the company by gambling the last $5,000 they had on blackjack. He won $27,000 and was able to cover the company's $24,000 fuel bill.
VMxx4 TIL the first female admiral in the modern world was Keumalahayati from Aceh Sultanate (now part of Indonesia) in Southeast Asia. She led their defense against the Dutch Navy attacks that killed Cornelis de Houtman in September 1599, who commanded the first Dutch Expedition to East Indies.
lomNa TIL that Portuguese is the most widely spoken language in South America, solely because Brazil so far out-populates the other Spanish-speaking countries
woo68 TIL that all pet Syrian hamsters are descended from a single brother and sister captured in 1930.