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TIL around 25% of all mammal species are bats

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Bvjy TIL homicide rates & battle deaths are way down since prehistoric times – and we now live in “The most peaceful time in our species’ existence”
7bYM TIL Teddy Roosevelt said: “I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding; and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done. Criminals should be sterilized and feeble-minded persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them.”
7r6RX TIL that the US uses customary units of measurement that, prior to 1959, were slightly bigger than the imperial system units. The Mendenhall Order established a set conversion rate between the US and metric systems, causing discrepancies with the imperial system over time.
kJYMW TIL A working class neighbourhood in Zurich became a red-light district in the 1970s. As more people left their villages and moved to the city, it was easier and more profitable to rent out small apartments to prostitutes rather than use them as housing
R7Qo6 TIL: The decline in hunters threatens how U.S. pays for conservation. The user-play, user-pay funding system for wildlife conservation has been emulated around the world. It has been incredibly successful at restoring the populations of North American game animals, some of which were once endangered