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TIL the SodaStream as been around for 120 years, and first hit the consumer market in 1955

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yQBQe TIL ants make up 15 to 20% of the terrestrial animal biomass. In rain forests, as much as 25% of it is ants.
J8Ll TIL the shortest correspondence in history was between novelist Victor Hugo and his publisher, after the publication of Les Miserables. Wishing to learn how sales were going, Hugo sent a telegram with only one character. “?”. As the book had already sold out, the publisher responded: “!”
Mg08 TIL every fig has a dead wasp in it.
kJobm TIL: Scientists developed a molecule that mimics exercise, called Compound-14.
xVdXB TIL that in 2011, an egg-sized meteorite believed to be 4.5B years old struck a home in France. The meteorite was one of 60 that have fallen in France over 400 years. The best, most coincidental part? The family’s last name was Comette.