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TIL that the Pangolin is the most trafficked animal in the world.

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mxWxP TIL Pyotr Tchaikovsky's family original last name was Chaika (Seagull) and it was of a distinguished Ukrainian Cossack background. Tchaikovsky wrote more than 30 compositions while in Ukraine, because - "I found a feeling of peace in my soul, which I couldn't find in Moscow and St Petersburg"
4Ova TIL that, despite popular belief, Americans actually pay more taxes for healthcare than Canadians, Australians, and Western Europeans.
pYdRp TIL At the start of World War 2 the tops of pillar post boxes were painted with an invisible gas detection paint that would turn yellow in the event of a gas attack.
w05J TIL that Ugandan dictator Idi Amin’s official title was “His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.”
jpQQ TIL: Humans are so similar in body structure/genome to baby chimps that scientists now believe humans lost a receptor protein that allowed us to transition from juvenile chimps to adult chimps, leaving us healthier & With larger brain cavities, ultimately allowing us to rise as the superior genus.