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

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l7jlB TIL: Town Criers also use other instruments than a bell such as a gong, hunting horn, lute, drums, etc and women were also town criers in medieval times. Today, there are still town crier World Championships for best dressed and loudest. The loudest crier hit 114.8 db.
ebdL TIL That calling “Dibs” comes from a game called “dibstones” and dates back to the 17th century
a8VbL TIL: About Alphonse Bertillion, an anthropologist and chief of France’s Judicial Identification Services who developed and was featured in the first standardized mug shot.
Ma60 TIL Italian Emma Morano, who is 117 years old, is the last living person born in the 1800s (Nov. 29, 1899)
OovJ7 TIL that in 1758, Carl Linnaeus, in his book Systema Naturæ, divided humans into five "subspecies:" the white, sanguine, and powerful Europeans; the yellow, melancholy, and severe Asians; the red, choleric, and stubborn Americans; the black, stony, and lax Africans; and the "wild, monstrous" others.