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TIL there are more endangered snails than any other bird, mammal, reptile, amphibian and fish put together.

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M7eNm TIL the District of Columbia used to contain 3 municipalities. Alexandria was returned to Virginia in 1846 and Georgetown was merged with Washington in 1871.
evM4 TIL that in 1976 a Japanese ultranationalist porn actor died after flying a plane into the house of a yakuza don to punish him for accepting millions of dollars in bribes from Lockheed & betraying the samurai code
mx4WY TIL during the Middle Ages, wild wolves lived in forests near Paris. During the harsh winter of 1450, a pack of hungry wolves managed to enter to city and ate 40 people.
0xl1 TIL the Producers of Hannah Montana almost named her Alexis Texas.
7rO97 TIL Dmitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist and teacher, devised the periodic table. In 1867, one day after working for three straight days, he got the inspiration from a dream: "Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.” He named his discovery the “periodic table of the elements.”