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TIL that the Sun is 99.86% of all mass in our solar system. Every other planet, asteroid, and comet only adds up to 7/50th of a single percent.

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QNdnM TIL of The Colossus of Prora, a 2.8 mi / 4.5 km long building complex on the island of Rügen, built by Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1939
Lybp TIL the US + 11 nations are in meetings to create the TPP trade deal that would (1) create jail time for illegal downloading, (2) punish piraters by banning their use of internet (3) force ISPs to give your private data to government (4) censor the internet by removing content and entire websites
mkgy TIL that eating ripe bananas help combat abnormal cells and the more dark spots a banana has the better the anti-cancer quality.
4k6Ag TIL that around age 13, kids’ brains shift from focusing on their mothers’ voices to favour new voices
woeY TIL the world’s entire demand of electricity could be supplied with a solar farm the size of Spain.