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TIL The Count made Liam Neeson count to 20

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JYr5m TIL The government in various states used to call their electric chair "Old Sparky"
6Exrw TIL That when people first started using the telephone they would often yell into the wrong part, and when they did get on the phone, they had to figure out what to say to start a conversation: “Ahoy” was Alexander Graham Bell’s preferred option.
VBMAm TIL 36% of all mammals are human, 60% our livestock and 4% wildlife.
dPAZ TIL Bhutan is the only country in the world that is carbon negative; it emits 1.5 million tonnes of carbon a year while its forests absorb 6 million.
5kgk TIL: In NYC in 1987 the number of people bitten by squirrels: 95. The number of people bitten by other people in NYC that year: 1600.