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TIL about 25% of all animal species are beetles.

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81AP TIL in the Breaking Bad episode ‘Ozymandias’, Holly crying out 'Mama’ was not scripted. The baby playing Holly saw her mother standing off-camera and Bryan Cranston played along with it.
VMgx8 TIL that In 1965, a four-year-old nearly drowned at a beach, but was rescued by a woman named Alice Blaise. 9 years later, that boy saved a man at the same beach. That man was Alice's husband.
JZ98 TIL that in 1796, some of the first “attack ads” in US election history were published and included a warning that Thomas Jefferson would emancipate all slaves if elected
mxlPp TIL Roman citizens were entitled to free allotments of wine given to them by the state (skip to 20:20)
xZ5D TIL A scientist had to name an octopus species. She thought it was “just so cute” she considered opisthatoothus ADORABILis