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TIL It's estimated that up to 90% of the wildlife found on Madagascar is found nowhere else on Earth

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OGlY1 TIL Americans pronounce the word “interesting” with four syllables, unlike the three in my country
1aRQ7 TIL researchers discovered bacteria that naturally evolved to eat away at polyethylene terephthalate, the plastic known as PET or polyester. While studying the structure of an enzyme found in that bacteria, they accidentally created a “mutant enzyme” that can break down plastic within a few days
nWB59 TIL in the Neuhammer disaster, 13 German Stuka bombers dived into the ground due to a flawed weather report.
VQeB TIL Chuck Lorre (producer of 2.5 Men, Big Bang Theory) wrote the lyrics to the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song
PYdne TIL that Jim Henson's puppeteers almost never broke character, no matter what happened