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TIL of the approximately 8,000 amphibian species currently alive, about 90% of them (about 7200) are just frogs and toads.

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LQ50P TIL that the cover of The Doors’ 1970 album “Morrison Hotel” was taken at an actual Morrison Hotel in LA. The band was not given permission to photograph, so they did it while the clerk was away from the desk. The band jumped right behind the windows and hit their places without shuffling.
awbwb TIL Dolly Parton entered a lookalike contest and lost!
6Rm TIL, it’s possible for a fighter jet to travel so fast that it overcomes it’s own bullets and shoots itself down.
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