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TIL Bats represent 20% of all mammals
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TIL The longest novel ever published is ‘Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus’ by Madeleine de Scudéry (1653) with 2.1 million words.
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TIL 1 sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1587GB in about 3 seconds
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TIL in 2014, Taylor Swift accidentally released 8 seconds of white noise on iTunes for $1.29. It became #1 in Canada almost immediately before being removed.
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TIL of the Pomelo, one of the original citrus species from which the rest of cultivated citrus' have been hybridized, such as today's oranges and grapefruit, etc.
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TIL: Paleontologists call the stegosaurus’s distinctive set of four tail spikes the “Thagomizer.” The anatonomical structure was unnamed until Gary Larsen coined the term in a Far Side cartoon.