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TIL - Ants eat more meat than lions, tigers and wolves combined

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d80XK TIL over 500,000,000 Indians or over 1/3 of their population are considered open defecators, meaning they defecate everywhere but a toilet(streets, fields, beaches). 22.6% of Indians with access to a toilet still choose to openly defecate out of preference
awYoM TIL that birds’ knees don’t bend backwards—we’re just looking at their ankles!
nwgY TIL The “Door Close” button on many elevators doesn’t actually close the doors any faster than normal.
X00BD TIL Rami Malek started his career by paying $2,000 to deliver three lines in Gilmore Girls which “took him forever to pay off”.
8aD7P TIL a soldier in Napoleon's army invented "night writing" in the early 1800s so soldiers could communicate safely in the dark. It was then adapted and perfected by Louis Braille to give us the tactile writing system known as "Braille", which is used by vision impaired persons worldwide.