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TIL 25% of all known animal species are beetles

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dWWZ TIL a 6 year old boy in UK sent a letter to the Railroad Museum asking for a job in the cutest way, they invited him over and named him “Director of Fun”
J1yy1 TIL computer servers are getting so hot and cooling them emits so much carbon (as much as the aviation industry), manufacturers are dunking servers into nonconductive liquid tanks to cool them and help their clients meet power usage effectiveness regulations
epZRn TIL: 60 million people were killed in WWII, of which 6 million were Jews
WGrL TIL when the Dutch discovered penguins for the first time in the 17th century, they literally called them “fat gooses”
DKjP TIL Original Tabasco sauce is aged 3 years in oak barrels