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TIL Humans are the most plentiful mammal species on Earth 🌍 🌎 🌏

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Z8Qo4 TIL of Sir David Brailsford, a British cycling coach who theorizes if you make a 1% improvement in a host of tiny areas, the cumulative benefits will be extraordinary. Utilizing this theory of "marginal gains"; his teams have won 18 gold medals, six Tour de France titles, and 59 World Championships.
epByb TIL Nigeria is the third largest Guinness drinking nation, followed By the USA
60ow TIL that when Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, he willed the cities of Boston and Philadelphia $4,400 each, but with the stipulation that the money could not be spent for 200 years. By 1990 Boston’s trust was worth over $5 million.
gr0Kb TIL that the creator of the sportswear company Adidas (Adolf Dassler) was a member of the Nazi Party.
bvOj TIL that Mozart wrote an intentionally bad piece of music to emulate the style of an incompetent composer.