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TIL Australia is home to 10% of the world's reptile species, which is more than any other country.

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RdQl TIL Harry Truman created the school lunch program in 1946 in response to the high number of military draftees that were rejected because of malnutrition.
ADKLn TIL Father of US Navy Admiral John Paul Jones fouhgt his last naval battles in the area of present-day Ukraine
yxdM TIL that great white sharks are able to detect electromagnetic fields emitted by movement of animals, they are so sensitive that they can detect variations up to a billionth of a volt. At close range this allows them to hear heartbeats.
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OydL TIL: Michelangelo considered himself a sculptor, not a painter, and despised painting the Sistine Chapel so much, he even wrote a scathing poem about it!