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TIL That The last animal in the dictionary is the zyzzyva, a tropical weevil

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XEvoX TIL Giraffes only require about 30 minutes of sleep per day... with an average lifespan of 25 years, they’re conscious for most of it.
9w8bp TIL in the UK alone, some 7 million Halloween costumes are binned each year, equivalent of 2000 tons of plastic, and globally less than 13% of material inputs to clothing manufacture are recycled and only 1% of clothing textiles are recycled into new clothes. According to The Fairyland Trust.
x6pN7 TIL Seth McFarlane is one of many waiting to be cryopreserved when they die
OG6ag TIL bears in Yellowstone can eat 40,000 moth grubs per day.
OoaJe TIL that the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history resulted in the deaths of only 2 white men. In total, 95 black people were hanged and mutilated with their heads used to decorate New Orleans.