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TIL scientists estimate only 14% of the 10-14 million species on earth have been documented and over earths history there have been 5 billion different species.

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xVkrw TIL Halle Berry used to go on AOL chatrooms anonymously to have normal conversations. Whenever she revealed her true identity, no one believed her.
4QZa TIL that Andre the giant once drank 119 beers in 6 hours, that’s one every 3 minutes, passed out and when they couldn’t move him they put a piano cover over him and let him sleep it off.
nae7 TIL that Benjamin Franklin was an avid swimmer, and while in London in his 20s swam 3 ½ miles from Chelsea to Blackfriars, impressed onlookers with “feats of activity,” and seriously considered staying in England for good to found a swimming school and earn his fortune.
Y7XyW TIL Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, began his career when Steve Jobs encouraged him to drop out of college and grow his software startup
woKO7 TIL that during the revolutionary war, significantly more African Americans fought for the British than did for the Americans. These fighters would be coined as Black Loyalists.