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TIL The '1% Rule' is a rule of thumb which states that only 1% of users actively create new content. The other 99% only lurk.

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NXxQJ TIL Plants receive more energy on a cloudy day in the summer than on a sunny day in the winter.
p8gw8 TIL that a cape made of Madagascar Golden Orb spider silk went on display in 2012 at the London V&A museum. 1.2 million spiders provided the silk and it took 8 years to create.
GA1M5 TIL that 6 year old Seryozha Aleshkov was the youngest soldier of WW2. The war orphaned him and then a group of soldiers took him in as a brother. He then went on to find German spies hiding in a haystack and was awarded for his intelligence. He died in 1990, aged 54. More information below.
0w8AM TIL that a guy called Dale Schroeder used his life savings to send 33 students to college. he grew up poor in Iowa, never married, had no children, and worked as a carpenter at the same company for 67 years and only owned 2 jeans.
pY8bN TIL that elephant seals can hold their breath for over 100 minutes and dive to depths of over 5,000ft below the surface of the ocean