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

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neNkY TIL that if you lose 75% of your liver, it'll grow back completely in one year.
awy00 TIL that FBI's nationwide manhunt to capture depression-era gangster John Dillinger after he broke out of jail cost them about 2 million dollars at the time. The total amount of money his gang looted was around 500,000 dollars.
7BVO TIL that 1 in 4 people in Greenland have attempted suicide, making it the most suicidal country in the world
41Wa TIL according to a Chinese legend, music was invented in 2697 B.C., when the Emperor Huang Ti send Ling Lun to cut bamboo poles that would produce a sound matching the call of a phoenix bird.
69Do7 TIL about French botanist Jeanne Baret, who while posing as a man, became the first female to circumnavigate the world in the 18th century. In 1766, she joined a French expedition, collected hundreds of plant specimens, and spent the majority of the voyage hiding her identity.