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TIL about the thick-tailed pygmy jerboa, a species of rodent found in China, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. They have a head and body length of around 4.5-6 cm, are described as having a large head with small eyes, and live in permanent burrows with multiple passages that can extend for 3 m.

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awLeb TIL Aroldis Chapman holds the record for fastest pitch at 105.1 MPH. When Nolan Ryan played they clocked pitches at 10 feet from the plate, now they clock it at release point. Had Ryan pitched his record 100.9 today it would have clocked at around 108 MPH and he would have regularly thrown 106-107.
N1yQ TIL JFK said “There is a terrific disadvantage not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily … even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn’t write it … there isn’t any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without [the press]”
vmv4 TIL that Peter Capaldi, the 12th Doctor, personally sent a video in character to an autistic boy to help him cope with his grandmother’s death (video in comments)
jNAX TIL that the top tax rate in the US, while at 35% now, used to be above 90% in the 1950s and ‘60s.
y86v TIL John Stockwell estimated over 6 million people had been killed due to CIA covert ops back in 1987.