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TIL Theodore Roosevelt killed over 11,400 animals on his expedition to Africa, it took over 8 years for the Smithsonian to catalog all of them.

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8G7b TIL over 6,000 Americans go to the emergency room for injuries opening plastic packaging
PYP8G TIL that none of the architecture on Euro banknotes is real, as the EU prohibited displaying any national monuments, so to not give greater prominence to one country over another. Hence, for the €5 note, a computer was used to scan multiple European bridges and combine them into one neutral design.
nePMb [TIL] Fish can have larvae. I thought it was just for insects.
X09Dj TIL a 'borborygmus' is a stomach rumble, also known as a bowel sound, peristaltic sound or abdominal sound
b6bE TIL Stanley Kubrick’s decision to only use classical music in what would become the iconic soundtrack for “2001: A Space Odyssey”, was made last minute in post-production. Alex North, who’d written an entire score for the film, didn’t find out his music had been discarded until the premiere.