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TIL that about 80% of the animal and plant species in Madagascar are unique to the island and found nowhere else on Earth.

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yV05V TIL That one of the founding members of the British SAS was from Wisconsin. Sergeant (later Major) Charles 'Pat' Riley moved to the UK when he was seven, joining the British Army at 18 and eventually becoming a member of the famous SF unit.
jNlyj TIL that Super Bowl XXVII was originally to be hosted in Tempe, Arizona, but was moved after voters rejected an initiative to recognize MLK Day. After it eventually passed, the NFL awarded Super Bowl XXX to Tempe three years later.
ANJWd TIL Switzerland has enough nuclear fallout shelters to accommodate its entire population.
RjwQ TIL after it was reported that a guesthouse in Hudson, NY charged guests $500 for giving negative online critiques, Yelpers gave it hundreds of one-star reviews
4v16 TIL for Yao Ming’s first game in Miami in 2002, the Heat gave out 8,000 fortune cookies as a promotion for the game. Yao did not take offense because he had never seen a fortune cookie in China and assumed it was an American invention.