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TIL bats make up 25% of all mammal species
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TIL HR Giger, who designed the Xenomorphs in Aliens, designed an unused batmobile for Batman Forever
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TIL that the Chinese word for ‘superfluous’, 画蛇添足 literally means to draw legs on a snake.
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TIL after Robert Kennedy was shot, his last words were "Everything's going to be okay."
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TIL between 1999 and 2014 the British Post Office, due to an accounting software glitch, criminally prosecuted 736 people who ran post office branches for theft and false accounting. With many left bankrupt or in prison, despite the Post Office becoming aware of a fault in the system in 2010.
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TIL that the Sahara Desert fertilizes the Amazon rainforest!