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TIL that 25% of all known animals are beetles.

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YpjWZ TIL that King George V, on a visit to Japan, had a local artist tattoo a blue and red dragon on his arm in 1881.
dMRE TIL turtles fart. A lot.
Ka0R TIL in 2013 an Icelandair passenger drank an entire bottle of alcohol, grabbed women, strangled people, and screamed that the flight was going to crash. He was later taped to his seat by the crew
a8LZb TIL that the human-dog relationship goes back many thousands of years. A skeleton of a dog, buried 14,000 years ago, was found next to that of two people. The dog skeleton shows that it survived a serious infection as a puppy. Had humans not frequently fed and cleaned the dog, it would have died.
OGXD7 TIL that the founder of Southwest Airlines, Herb Kelleher, once settled a trademark dispute with another airline's executive through an arm-wrestling match, in an event nicknamed “The Malice in Dallas”