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TIL there is a species of weevil named after baseball player José Bautista

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VEpD TIL that a Pakistani soldier and a Malaysian soldier also died (along with the 18 Americans) trying to rescue the crashed American helicopter crews in Mogadishu during “Black Hawk Down”.
KO9M6 TIL the reason Phoenix can exist in the middle of the desert is because in 1868 Jack Swilling discovered the ruins of a 27,000 sqmi canal system built by the Hohokam. He restarted the canals and today that infrastructure, with modern expansions, waters the city of over a million in the hot desert.
44Xw TIL that a police force can reject an applicant if his IQ score is too high
9YQKG TIL Developers of Spyro 3 delayed piracy by two months by hiding confusing code that would break the game in ways like randomly changing the language or removing collectibles if a crack was detected. The cracking group that finally succeeded thanked them for the unique challenge.
b919N TIL that The world's largest museum dedicated to an animal - The Crocodile Museum in Aswan. The museum is located in front of the Kom Ombo Temple, which was dedicated to worshiping the god Sobek, which takes the crocodile body.