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TIL that a two toed sloth in 2001 was discovered hanging under a field research team’s latrine, scooping up the mixture of feces, urine and toilet paper and eating it.

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rkv1 TIL: The most expensive yacht in the world is a gold-plated super-yacht worth $4.5 billion USD. It comes complete with a statue made from the bone of a T-Rex dinosaur
R5o91 TIL the Solar System is much, much larger than I thought; Pluto is located at 39 Astronomical Units from the sun, while the Oort cloud, formed by billions or even trillions of asteroids, starts at around 2 to 5 thousand AUs from the sun and ends at around 10 to 100 thousand.
Me087 TIL Tigers only have a hunt success rate of about 5%. They let 19 out of 20 possible meals get away.
aWMy TIL an app exists where you can call and wake up strangers.
negrG TIL Australia constructed a 2,023 miles (3,256 km) series of 3 fences between 1901 and 1907 designed to keep rabbits out of Western Australia.