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GYkAg TIL That Madagascar wildlife is so unique that over 90% of it are endemic species that can't be found anywhere else on Earth. Reason for that is that it has been isolated for 88 millions years from other land masses.
wj8 TIL in 2008 a Texas schoolgirl was thrown off the cheerleading team for refusing to cheer “put it in” for a football player who raped her.
Y66v TIL that Steven Spielberg made the Indiana Jones movies as revenge for being rejected from directing a James Bond movie.
bQK9 TIL Sniper bullets can hit targets so far away that the sniper needs to take the spin of the Earth into account (The Coriolis Drift)
ybDp TIL only 345 American deaths in the Spanish-American War were due to combat, 88% of all American deaths were due to disease. More than 62,000 people died from disease over the course of the war.