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TIL Walmart costs taxpayers 6.2 billion per year.

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8e8eK TIL - Manatees, elephants and kangaroos are unusual among mammals because they are polyphyodonts (animal whose teeth are continually replaced)
VM8wk TIL of Sleep Paralysis, where your body temporarily paralyses itself so that you're unable to move or speak during a lucid dream. It's possible to wake up while still being paralyzed, resulting in hallucination - seeing, hearing, feeling, or smelling something that isn't actually present
mxMYy TIL Isaac Asimov wrote a book named The Sensuous Dirty Old Man and was known as "the man with a hundred hands", in reference to his constant groping and molestation of women.
pYAoO TIL In Mongolia, 'humans' are the fifth most abundant medium to large mammal. (Sheep > Goats > Cattle > Horses > Humans > Camels) There are 20 livestock per person in Mongolia, although this fluctuates from year to year. Not including wildlife.
g0eD TIL Chimpanzees and monkeys have entered the Stone Age