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TIL Beetles comprise 25% of ALL animal species and 40% of all insect species!

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VMkJD TIL that the Germans tried banning the Americans from using shotguns during WWI, a weapon most notably used for clearing trenches with devestating efficiency.
KY6XJ TIL That mangos and cashews are part of the poison ivy family
e09xk TIL Richard Sheridan finished writing his ‘School for Scandal’ play as it was being performed. He rushed lines down to the actors before they went back on stage.
R5g1j TIL that in 1987 Nevada created an unpopulated county, Bullfrog County, to try to dissuade the US government from building a nuclear waste site there. Taxes were set as high as possible and all officials were appointed by the Nevada government.
bOB4 TIL Peter The Great accepted his wife be executed after she killed her newborn baby. When he showed up at the execution, the crowd assumed he’d stop the execution, but instead he watched her executed, kissed her detached head and used it to explain to the crowd the intracacies of neck anatomy.