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TIL about the existence of snail kings, which have a left-handed shell-coiling. For common garden snails, researchers estimate the occurrence frequency of snail kings at 1:40,000 individuals.

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jNP9n TIL Thomas Jefferson was skeptical about extinction, and thought mastodons were probably lurking in the deep West.
kOPK1 TIL of Emma Morano, the last survivor of the 19th century. She died in 2017 at the age of 117.
KYvVG TIL Benjamin Franklin is frequently quoted as the author, but he never said "Democracy can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury."; that is a misquote of a scottish monarchist who hated democracy
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