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TIL one estimate claims that Earth may have 1 trillion species. However, only 1.75–1.8 million have been named and 1.8 million documented in a central database. These currently living species represent less than one per cent of all species that have ever lived on Earth.

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jN9Ov TIL "This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours" - Is the message NASA launched as a record into space in 1977 attached to Voyager 1.
yQ0B8 TIL when the University of California, San Diego is moving from being a D2 school to a D1 school in college sports, students will have to pay an additional $480 per year in fees
9Y9gB TIL of "MileHighClub" tours, which chartered flights with voyeur cams from Florida for people who wanted to have “sex in the sky”. The company suspended operations after an elderly couple booked the “Quickie” flight & were killed trying to hijack the plane to Cuba, crashing it into the sea
nOPW TIL that after sweeping the 2004 Oscars, Peter Jackson & Elijah Wood skipped all official celebrations in favour of attending a LOTR fan party.
loW6K TIL that there are now giant pigs that are as heavy as polar bears. There is a very big pig that weighs 1102lbs (500kg), as much as a polar bear. The animal is part of a herd that is being bred to become giant swine. At slaughter, some of the pigs can sell for more than US$1,399.