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TIL Android currently holds 84% of the smartphone OS market share, compared to only 11% for IOS

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LQom TIL that the thirteenth amendment, which outlawed slavery, was not ratified by the state of Mississippi until 1995.
e0ZJb TIL, the famous exchange from "Aliens" about "Have you ever been mistaken for a man?" was originally from the Algonquin Round Table
8aK7G TIL that Hubei Province in China, which has Wuhan as its capital, is home to about 58.5MM people. That's almost as many as California and New York state combined, living in 71,800 sq miles, or roughly 1.3 New Yorks.
Zpv0o TIL that scientists used a dating method to show a Viking ax cut trees on the North American continent exactly 1000 years ago, in 1021 C.E. This dating method uses a spike in solar radiation that left a mark in tree rings around the world. This proves the Vikings arrived before Christopher Columbus.
OovJ7 TIL that in 1758, Carl Linnaeus, in his book Systema Naturæ, divided humans into five "subspecies:" the white, sanguine, and powerful Europeans; the yellow, melancholy, and severe Asians; the red, choleric, and stubborn Americans; the black, stony, and lax Africans; and the "wild, monstrous" others.