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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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WkQkd TIL Thomas Edison proposed a giant phonograph be placed in the mouth of the Statue of Liberty so that it could welcome people to the US
W1lo TIL that during his 1955 tour in Ghana, Louis Armstrong suddenly stopped playing, moved by the fact that one of the dancers resembled his mother, who had died 20 years before. He said: “I know it now. I came from here, way back. At least my people did. Now I know this is my country too.”
v1N6D TIL that all real numbers would have to count as ‘even’, since for any real 'a' there is always a real 'c' such that a=2c, division by 2 being always possible for reals
D1QyP TIL the Great Wall of China stood for so long because the mortar included rice
YgJZ TIL that tomorrow marks the 8000th day of the internet