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TIL that Estonia is one of the least religious countries in the world - only 18% believe in a god

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aY8b TIL there’s an optical illusion that can “break” your brain for over 3 months.
78wAx TIL on 3 December 1894, the author of Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson was talking to his wife and straining to open a bottle of wine when he suddenly exclaimed, "What's that?", then asked his wife, "Does my face look strange?", and collapsed and died a few hours later due to a stroke.
YpyjA TIL the Sun accounts for 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System
0dXw5 TIL: Humans and bananas share about 40 to 60 percent of the same DNA
kJARg TIL that before the raid of Osama Bin Laden in 2011, two 1:1 scaled versions of his Pakistani compound were built in the US, for SEALs to practice their raid on. The elevation of these test compounds was also built to be at the same level, to test the affect it would have on the raid helicopters.