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TIL there are currently 13,000 snakes PER SQUARE MILE in Guam after the invasive species of Brown Tree Snakes were introduced there in the 1940’s.

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mDpE TIL Babe Ruth once tried cricket. Finding the cricket stance uncomfortable he decided to use his baseball stance. He destroyed the bat and sent the ball flying multiple times, but lost interest in the sport after he heard what the best cricket batsmen were paid: a mere $40 a week.
KQ4R TIL Iran only classes three organizations as terrorist groups, and two of them are the CIA and the American Army.
l77p5 TIL that Complex Numbers aren't "complex"... you can see them as a simple way to do rotations around the Cartesian plane
MebWK TIL that sea toads are deep-sea dwellers that have special fins for walking on the seafloor. They also have massive, inflatable gill chambers that expand their bodies with seawater, allowing them to take up more oxygen and protect themselves by puffing up just as pufferfish do.
wLLO7 TIL that Gandhi supported an Islamic caliphate movement in India when Ottoman Caliphate was formally abolished in 1924 by Atatürk