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Til that one out of every 5 mammal species is a bat.

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Jw5V TIL That in the contest between Legolas and Gimli to kill the most Orcs, Gimli won.
amZA TIL A Platypus is one of the few mammals to produce venom.
ReMl TIL of Bill Macumber legal case who was accused of murdering of 2 people. But another man confessed the crime to his lawyer - before dying in a fight. Because of attorney-client privilege, the lawyer’s testimony was not presented, and Bill Macumber went to jail for 37 years.
PYvJJ TIL that in 1670, against a judge's instructions, a jury refused to find two men guilty. The judge held the jury in contempt; locked them up overnight without food, water or heat; and fined them. On appeal, the Chief Justice ruled that a jury could not be punished for returning the wrong verdict.
oR1lY Today I learned how the individual days of the week got their name. The individual days of the week got their names from the ancient Romans, who named them after the seven visible celestial bodies known at the time: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn ¹.