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TIL beetles constitute almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal life-forms

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eyO6 TIL when the United States was fighting in World War 2, they asked Mexicans to cross the border to work agricultural jobs.
R1Jw TIL that the torture perpetrated at the Kemna concentration camp, one of the first Nazi concentration camps, was so brutal that the Nazi themselves held hearings and investigated the reports of torture. However, no crimes were prosecuted, there were only warnings given.
mxA8P TIL the football huddle originated at Gallaudet University, a school for the deaf, when the team noticed their opponents were trying to read their signs in order to guess their plays.
6wp7 TIL that in some states there is a legal definition of being an idiot and that these people are not allowed to vote
l9x7 TIL the United States left the Afghanistan government with almost $1 billion in high-tech airplanes that they don’t know how to use.