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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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4XoDR TIL the wreckage of the Titanic will likely disappear by 2030 due to forming "rusticles" that will eventually break apart and drift away.
KOKGw TIL Jerry Seinfeld was 38 when he started dating Shoshanna, then a 17 year old high schooler whom he met in a park
yy8e TIL the 2002 movie Russian Ark was filmed in one single 96-minute take, on the third try. The shot involved 33 sets, 867 actors, 3 live orchestras, hundreds of extras, and a steadicam operator taking a 1.3 km journey through it all.
epa9E TIL that Tour de France cyclists can eat up to 8000 calories per day averaging around 5000 daily. Three weeks, 21 stages, 3,351km, 176 cyclists and a combined burn of 25 million calories.
PYAaE TIL that in the Science of Discworld books, which tells of a flat "earth" floating through space, there is a organization called Omnianism, on Discworld, that believes the Discworld is round.