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TIL about 25% of all animal species are beetles.

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loMv7 TIL, although it sounds incredible that people have survived falls from aircraft as high as 20 000 feet, the extreme height makes little difference as anything above 10 or 12 stories and you've reached terminal velocity. So a fall from 20,000 is no different from a 500 foot fall."
Z8ZEQ TIL that the melody to the medieval English folk song "Nottamun Town" was considered lost to history until musicologists found isolated, illiterate, populations in Appalachia singing the song with a common melody and lyrics.
WR9A TIL in an episode of Seinfeld, Elaine is dating a man who shares the same name of a serial killer. While flipping through a sport-illustrated, Elaine suggests the name OJ for him to change his name to - a year before OJ Simpson went on trial for killing his wife and her friend.
ew8g TIL Earth’s rotation is slowing at a rate of approximately 17 milliseconds a century, and the length of a day for the dinosaurs was closer to 22 hours.
5VVQp TIL about the Faraday School Kidnapping that occurred in 1972 in Victoria, Australia, where two men kidnapped a teacher her six students for a ransom of $1,000,000. The kidnapping inspired the HBO movie, "Fortress", which portrayed the kidnappers as gun-wielding maniacs wearing Halloween masks.