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TIL that only about 43% of the human body's cells are human. The rest are microscopic organisms.

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JY9Qk TIL that Jason Statham competed in diving at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand
GAGE1 TIL that the famous "We Can Do It!" poster was barely known during WWII. It was displayed for two weeks as part of a series of posters to boost worker morale in one company's factories. It remained virtually unknown until the 1980s when it was rediscovered in an article about the National Archives.
dDeJ8 TIL The 'Leap Day William' episode of 30 Rock was directed by Steve Buscemi.
ADBxg TIL A woodpecker's tongue wraps around its skull to protect it while hammers at over 1000 times the force of gravity. This protects it from bashing its brains out while pecking.
XErm8 TIL about Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky a Russian photographer who traveled the Russian Empire from around 1909 to 1915, and would take 3 individual black-and-white photos, each with a filter (red, blue, and green) to create high-quality pictures in full color way before full color images were available.