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TIL when the King of Saudi Arabia visited Britain, the Welsh Guards welcomed him by playing the Star Wars Imperial March

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e0GjL TIL Roughly 90 percent of the dollar bills in circulation in the U.S. have been shown to contain cocaine residue
XaYj TIL that more than 90 percent of the monarch butterfly population has vanished in the last 25 years.
ANL7a TIL hippos can defecate into rivers so much that their feces builds up and kills fish through hypoxia, or lack of oxygen. In the Mara River, about 4,000 hippos poop out more than 9 tons of dung each day. Hippo feces also leaves behind chemicals such as ammonium and sulfide, which is harmful to fish.
1KAO TIL that an assassination attempt was made against retired US President Theodore Roosevelt- he was saved by a 50 page speech in his breast pocket. Roosevelt then proceeded to deliver said speech with a bullet lodged in his ribs.
VZJG TIL a bird that is endemic to the Amazon Basin called the Hoatzin is hatched with claws on its wings; A genetic remnant that is evidence of birds dinosaurean lineage.