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TIL Jungles cover only 6% of the earth but contain over half the species on the planet.

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b9XP0 TIL that Mary, from the nursery rhyme "Mary Had A Little Lamb," 's real name was Mary Sawyer. She was an 11-year-old girl who lived in Boston and one day was followed to school by her pet lamb. In the late 1860s, she helped raise money for an old church by selling wool from the lamb.
jrDX TIL when Londoner Henry Budd died in 1862, he left his whole estate to his two sons on one condition – that neither of them would grow a moustache
8aV1X TIL that former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il secretly studied English on the small island of Malta in the 1970s . His English teacher, Prof. Daniel Massa, said that he used to become irritable when hungry, especially when lessons overstepped their time limit and impinged on his lunch break.
vmbB TIL that 35% of British adults sleep with a teddy bear
4kmAb TIL half-moons on fingernails and toenails (lunala) disappear with age.