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TIL that the internet 'weighs' about as same as a large strawberry

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g148 TIL that Boris Yeltsin, when he was president of Russia, was found by White House secret service drunk and in his underwear on Pennsylvania Ave, trying to hail a cab to get some pizza.
eA66 TIL Marie Antoinette’s last words were “Pardon me sir, I meant not to do it”, to her executioner, whose foot she had accidentally stepped on after climbing the scaffold to the guillotine. Also, her body was thrown into an unmarked grave.
BreYd TIL that Evolution of grass led to the evolution of humans
oRejr TIL in 1977, Ali Maow Maalin was the last person known to have been infected with naturally occurring Variola minor small pox. He fully recovered and later became one of the 10,000 volunteers who participated in the effort to help eradicate polio in Somalia. Ali died in 2013 from malaria.
4YlJ TIL dragonfly wings actually kill bacteria. There is a variety of mechanisms for this to happen, but one of those is by literally ripping open the bacteria with sharp, nano-sized pillars that coat the wings.