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TIL the Echis (Saw-Scaled Viper) is responsible for more human related deaths than any other snake and is arguably responsible for more deaths per year than all other snake species combined.

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JYRA1 TIL Korean is a language isolate; having developed independent of all other languages. It is the largest language isolate by a wide margin
wAKW TIL that US military operations during the 2003 Iraq invasion were originally conducted under the codename Operation Iraqi Liberation. They later changed it to Operation Iraqi Freedom because of the acronym.
VMlp TIL Rhydon was the first pokémon to ever be programmed, hence the numerous Rhydon statues scattered across Kanto in the original games.
OQW1 TIL that in WWII, the US Army asked Americans to loan their dogs to the war effort. The dogs’ handlers even sent letters home to their owners for Christmas and to inform them of their dog’s performance throughout the war.
9wkX7 TIL Asian and African elephants can successfully hybridise despite being in different genera. The only recorded hybrid, named Motty, died after 2 weeks however.