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Kmw TIL There is a insect called the tree lobster that almost went extinct due to rats from a shipwreck on the on the island where they lived
8VMZ TIL there is a town in Botswana called Kanye. It it divided into two parliamentary constituencies, Kanye North and Kanye South.
GYaJ5 TIL Air Conditioning was invented in 1881 in an effort to cool the mortally wounded U.S. President James A. Garfield
e0LyJ TIL that Leonardo da Vinci received complaints about his procrastinating from one of the priors while painting The Last Supper. He solved the argument by threatening to use that particular prior as the model for Judas in the fresco. The complaints stopped shortly after he made this remark.
l7nOA TIL of the funerary practice of hanging coffins by the extinct Bo people - ethnic minorities in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of China. About 100 of these wooden coffins were attached to stakes driven into the rock of a 600 meters high cliff.