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TIL 1 out of every 4 animal species on earth is a beetle.

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VMeXk TIL Mandrake, a root of a plant which sometimes resembles a human. It has long been steeped in the occult and medieval lore. The root was believed to bear hallucinogenic and narcotic properties and used in the treatment of headaches, earaches, gout and insanity to name a few.
GJ41 TIL Excel has a maximum of 1,048,576 rows of and 16,384 columns
awekJ TIL German secondary education streams kids into 5 different types of schools
R7PjQ TIL that in 1996, an American citizen swam across a Chinese river into North Korea on a drunken dare. He got caught, was held and imprisoned under suspicion of being a spy, but was eventually released back to the U.S. He committed suicide a few weeks later.
R79n7 TIL the last line of the psalm which the Boney M hit song Rivers of Babylon is based on, is "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stone"