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TIL At least half of all mammal species are burrowers.

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7rekp TIL the first weight-loss surgery was to the king of Leon, Spain during the 10th century. His morbid obesity made him lose the throne so his grandmother escorted him to Cordoba where a doctor sewed his lips shut, his food only coming from a straw. He lost half his weight and reclaimed the throne.
rNGjM TIL that fossil fuel doesn't come from dinosaurs.
nWo7r TIL Steve Harwell, singer of Smash Mouth, was originally a rapper in a Public-Enemy-inspired rap group, but abandoned the project after he heard Dr Dre's The Chronic and realised that the genre was changing.
Y7K1r TIL of PP-VJX, aka "the Cuban Express" — the Boeing 707 hijacked three times in four months; in all of them it was diverted to Cuba
16ok7 TIL: Saddam Hussein Claimed He Won The Gulf War.