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TIL 1 out of every 4 animals is a beetle.

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DXdv TIL that the first president of Zimbabwe was President Banana
AD6dw TIL Chinese Empress Cixi once remarked that she has heard much of Queen Victoria but she did not think that "her life is half as interesting and eventful as mine". Under her, China attained the attributes of a modern state: industries, railways, electricity, telegraph, and an army and navy
9YbZp TIL, On the same day Facebook became a public platform, DARPA suspended a project called LifeLog. The project “aimed to compile a massive electronic database of every activity and relationship a person engages in."
a814M TIL Employees working for movie theaters in the US are exempted from federal law requiring overtime pay. The clause within the 'Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938' establishing "exemption for any employee employed by an establishment which is a motion picture theater" still remains in place today.
mwRo TIL that Liam Neeson turned down playing James Bond in ‘95 because “he has never been interested in starring in action movies.”