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TIL Netflix has been around since 1997

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yg9w TIL There’s a huge reservoir of water in space that’s 100,000 times the mass of our sun. It contains 140 trillion times the amount of water on Earth.
LkKov TIL that the Andean condor can fly for over 5 hours without flapping, covering over 170 kilometres in the process.
rRnpy TIL That a Paypal Error Led to The World’s First “Quadrillionaire”
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Wv94 TIL that mercury use in hat-making, which causes “Mad Hatters Disease”, was banned in France in 1898, However the practice continued in the US until 1941, despite 80% of hatmakers being diagnosed with “mercurial tremors”, until it was abandoned due to the wartime need for mercury.