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TIL that 75% of Australia’s living species are still unknown to man

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bEZa TIL Marty Feldman, who played Igor in “Young Frankenstein,” clandestinely moved his hump from side to side during filming for several days until someone noticed it. It was then added to the script and made into a recurring gag.
dD8BB TIL about ASCII, a character encoding standard for electronic communication. In 1968, president Lyndon B. Johnson mandated that all computers purchased by the United States Federal Government support ASCII. It remained the most common character encoding on the World Wide Web until 2007.
N74xb TIL On average, cats who are allowed to roam outdoors often don't live to see age five. Cats who are always kept safely indoors can live to be 20 years old (or more)
Dmbe TIL a 12 year old girl was handcuffed, booked, and fingerprinted for eating french fries in a subway
78l9b TIL that James Cook discovered the island of Tubuai, Austral Islands of French Polynesia in March 1777 but failed to actually set foot on the island