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TIL that frogs account for 88% of extant amphibian species

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WkjPN TIL Dirk Obbink got a MacArthur genius grant for reassembling papyrus scrolls carbonized by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, but then got fired from Oxford Uni for allegedly fraudulently selling biblical papyri belonging to the Egypt Exploration Society as his own for millions of dollars.
BrvKL TIL an Arizona man found a balloon with a Christmas list for Santa while out hiking. He tracked down the 8-yr-old Mexican girl who released the balloon and fulfilled her wishlist.
pYEyQ TIL in United States, before the invention of mass produced typewriters, women was making up only 4% of the clerical workforce in 1874. This number rose to 75% by 1900.
b6xp TIL Rob Zombie was a production assistant on PeeWee’s Playhouse…
wv4E TIL that in 1978 the Canadian Museum of Nature fabricated a heist story to cover up the fact that they’d misplaced their Goodwill Moon Rock. The story was only given to one person: the 17 year old who’d delivered it 4 years earlier. He later found it in 2000 in a giant warehouse for museum exhibits.