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TIL bats make up about 20% of all known mammal species. There are about 1200 species of bats and about 5400 different mammals

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9wKVB TIL that there is a town in Oregon named Boring. It’s humorously paired with the town of Dull, Scotland, and the village of Bland, Australia, to promote tourism in all three places.
graZA TIL that a group of debt collecters in Erie, PA posed as sheriff deputies and create a fake courtroom to scare people into paying debts.
9wYlX TIL The Japanese sports equipment company ASICS is an acronym for “anima sana in corpore sano” Latin for “sound body, sound mind”
VMmYm TIL a musician, Sivu, who did his entire music video in an MRI machine.
ADJD4 TIL there was a “no-nose club” in the 19th century for sufferers of syphilis whose noses had collapsed