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TIL Bats represent 20% of all mammal species

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B5Yy TIL Abraham Lincoln once told a speech so powerful and intriguing that all the reporters simply forgot to take notes and the contents of Lincoln’s speech remains unknown.
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W7yJ9 TIL Kendrick Lamar is the only non-classical or Jazz musician to win The Pulitzer Prize for music
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RA97 TIL of John Leray, a French Mathematician who concealed his proficiency with differential equations to avoid working for the Nazis. While in a POW camp, he developed sheaves, sheaf cohomology, and spectral sequences which are important tools for modern Algebraic Geometry