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TIL that when your body burns fat 84% of it gets converted to carbon dioxide and exhaled through your lungs. The remaining 16% is converted into water that becomes urine and sweat.

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YQA7 TIL, the last bearded US president was President Benjamin Harrison, 130 years ago.
R9e6 TIL that they’ve put armed rangers on guard 24/7 to protect the last male northern white rhino left on Earth
6EXxZ TIL one of the first winners of the Miss USA pageant was stripped of her title when it was revealed that she was married and had children as being a wife and mother were against contest rules.
9XvD TIL NASA requires all astronauts to learn Russian language.
1dK7 TIL that Helium is named after the greek god Helios because the first evidence of it’s existence was found not on earth but in the sun during a solar eclipse in 1868. It was not formally identified on earth until 1895.