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TIL At least half of all mammal species are burrowers.

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wG18 TIL that in 1971 a small group calling themselves the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into a FBI office in Philly, stole over 1000 documents, exposed the extreme surveillance program COINTELPRO, and then sent these documents to the press, leading to the FBI shutting it down.
NXanJ TIL that astronauts can’t burp in space, the lack of gravity makes it impossible.
d8wjr TIL Robin Hood is often depicted as wearing “Lincoln Green”, colored clothes. These were dyed from the important clothing town Lincoln, in England and would date his tales to the early or mid 16th century.
BKab TIL that vultures have stomach acid 10x stronger than ours to they don’t get food poisoning.
r7ne TIL One of the 3 Lethal Injection drugs paralyzes the prisoner. This makes their death look peaceful to onlookers, but can hide suffering.