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TIL Some animals in Yosemite still carry the Black Plague

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w6A7 TIL The Iron Snail, lives in the Indian Ocean, more than 2,500 metres deep, it is the only known gastropod with a suit of scale armour, the scales and the shell are mineralised with iron sulfide, these snails make a skeleton out of iron, it’s the only animal so far known to do so.
Vnm0 TIL the inventor of the ATM proposed a 6 digit bank PIN but switched it to 4 digits because it was the longest string of numbers that his wife could remember.
4yAN TIL that the reason armadillos are so common as roadkill are that they jump three to four feet vertically when startled, which caused them to collide with the bottom of cars
Jn51 TIL a Senegalese officer, Mbaye Diagne, drove hundreds to safety during the Rwandan Genocide when no other developed nation would. He died on a trip when a mortar hit his jeep.
4XMob TIL that the most effective sniper in WWI was a Canadian First Nations soldier named Francis Pegahmagabow who killed 378 Germans soldiers and captured 300 more.