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TIL Tersicoccus phoenicis is a bacteria only known to exist at two locations on Earth, were independently found in geographically separated spacecraft assembly clean room facilities nearly 4,000 km (2,500 mi) apart.

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e0Mjn TIL that 73% of cars are white, black, silver, or grey.
1AP TIL that Beast, from Beauty and the Beast, is a chimera with the head of a buffalo, eyebrows of a gorilla, body of a bear, jaws and mane of a lion, tusks of a boar, and legs and tail of a wolf.
nWx5B TIL of the Indian Vulture Crisis, where the population of three species of vulture went from 40 million birds in the 80s to just 19,000 in 2017, a decline of 99.95%
8aBgV TIL that the creator of Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer was Jewish and identified with the underdog Rudolph because of his prominent nose.
5VBRQ TIL that the superstition of "knocking on wood" to avoid bad luck dates back to ancient Celtic tribes. They believed that spirits or gods lived in trees, and knocking on the tree would call on these spirits for protection.