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TIL that Mongolia has more horses than people

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xVoV0 TIL that the Ivory Billed Woodpecker has been believed to be extinct since the early 1900's. In 1932, however, in an attempt to refute these claims, a Louisiana state legislator and an attorney shot and killed one of the last of the birds and brought the remains to their local wildlife office.
N76Lb TIL in 1905, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, the Supreme Court ruled that states could enforce rules that restrain individual liberty, in favor of conserving the safety of the community
gMYdW TIL: By rubbing its penis across its abdomen, the water boatman can produce 99 dB of sound making it the loudest animal in the world, relative to its size.
16Egr TIL that Alan Moore's Watchmen comic series was originally set to utilize characters from Charlton Comics such as Peacemaker & Captain Atom. In fact, the original name of the Watchmen series was called "Who killed the Peacemaker?" before the character was ultimately replaced by The Comedian.
Bge9W TIL in Medieval Christian art sometimes depicts Christ as the grapes in a winepress, his blood flowing as wine