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TIL Deer are omnivorous

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grmYA TIL It's possible to bring back some extinct animals. In 2016, some ecologists from UCSB advised which species should be revived to best impact Earth's ecosystems. The species that made the cut: Christmas Island pipistrelle bat, Reunion giant tortoise & Lesser stick-nest rat.
Z174 TIL Robot is Czech for serf labor and Asimov was the first to use the word Robotics
yQ9NX TIL that by transmitting diseases, mosquitoes cause the deaths of more people than any other animal taxon: over 700,000 each year. It has been claimed that almost half of the people who have ever lived have died of mosquito-vectored disease.
OGlLg TIL around the same time George Washington's family moved to Virginia, another branch of the family moved to the Netherlands and later became Bavarian nobility, the Barons Von Washington. Von Washington wrote to his relative(6 generations removed) asking to serve in the US army, but got rejected
Z8vKD TIL In December 1973, Johnny Carson made a joke about an upcoming toilet paper shortage... the talk show host’s joke was blamed for causing a nationwide toilet paper shopping spree