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TIL there is an estimated 370 quintillion gallons of water on Earth.

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XXdR TIL Susan G. Komen Foundation gives only 20% of donations to cancer research, successfully sued other charities, and their CEO makes roughly $684,000 a year.
0w76y TIL Bluejays feathers aren't actually blue! Instead the pigment in their feathers (melanin) is brown and we perseve it as blue. Natures trickery.
rNlW4 TIL NASA considers kidney stones, and their current treatment options, to be an unacceptable risk for a human/Mars mission.
5Yo5n TIL in early 1984 Chrysler was about to introduce the Newport. However, after the dealers have taken first orders for those cars, Chrysler decided to cancel the new model and sell it as the Dodge Diplomat SE instead.
Anyx TIL a study was made because of a bank robber who robbed a bank while having lemon juice on his face thinking it will make him invisible like invisible ink, that concluded that low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority.