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TIL that armadillo shells can deflect bullets

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QngX TIL that the grippy texture on metal tools is called Knurling
l7VA5 TIL: 99 percent of all species ever are extinct and of one percent alive today only 14 percent have been documented and described!
WOg9 TIL ‘goodbye’ is a misspelled contraction of 'God be with ye’
jN5XE TIL The world’s first fully-trained paramedics was made up of exclusively young Black men in the 1960s
P1kEL TIL the gourd was one of the world's first cultivated plants grown not primarily for food, but for use as containers. It is also used as a resonator on many stringed instruments, including the sitar