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TIL that plasma is the 4th state of matter,and that it is the most common state of matter,making 99% of the whole known universe.

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knmg TIL American Police killed more people in March (111) than the entire UK police have killed since 1900
w4r7 TIL When the Belgians pulled out of the Congo in 1960, they left some 30 Congolese university graduates to fill over 4,000 administrative posts. This action left virtually no one who knew how to manage a country that size and dramatically furthered mass unrest.
78PmP TIL that according to former employees, the painter Thomas Kinkade, known for his enormously popular prints and hundreds of licensed galleries, once urinated on a statue of Winnie the Pooh at Disneyland, and repeatedly shouted "codpiece" at a Las Vegas magic show until his mother calmed him down.
QN71M TIL Malagasy, the national and co-official language of Madagascar, belongs to the Austronesian language family, primarily spoken in Southeast Asia, and does not originate from Africa. The ancestors of the Malagasy people migrated to Madagascar around 1,500 years ago.
kOxl5 TIL the individual animal with the most human kills ever was a tiger from Northern India, which adjusted its hunting strategy to kill people after a tooth injury left it unable to hunt normal prey and was shot after an estimated 436 kills