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TIL of all the mammals on Earth, 96% are livestock and humans, only 4% are wild mammals

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x65X5 TIL Green Day bassist Mike Prichard adopted the stage name Mike Dirnt as "Dirnt" was originally a nickname that his friends from grade school gave him, as he constantly played "air bass/guitar" and made a "dirnt, dirnt, dirnt" noise while pretending to pluck the strings.
6ERPw TIL that in 1975, the FDA banned the sale of turtles with a shell less than four inches long. The CDC estimates that the ban averts 100,000 cases of Salmonella infections—salmonellosis—each year in US children.
LkrWp TIL Steve Jobs hated pornography and didn't want iphones to be used for porn. He said “Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone.”
nebnB TIL of 4-7-8 breathing (inhale 4 seconds, hold 7 seconds, exhale 8 seconds, repeat). Based on pranayama breathing exercises, this "natural tranquilizer for the nervous system" activates the body's parasympathetic nervous system (relaxation) and suppresses the sympathetic nervous system (stress).
neojY TIL that the Chi-Chi's restaurant chain was hit with the largest hepatitis A outbreak in U.S. history, with at least four deaths and 660 other victims a month after filing for bankruptcy