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TIL Ants alone comprise about 20% of the entire animal biomass on land, totalling around 20 quadrillion. They outweigh all mammals and birds on Earth, combined.

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GY5VG TIL in 2009, three New Zealand blue ducks - two males and a female - were kept in a breeding program in England. However, the program was derailed (despite the efforts of the breeders and even the female duck) when the two male ducks hooked up with each other instead of with the female.
o8dK TIL that the Soviets and the UK invaded Iran during World War II in order to prevent their oil reserves from falling into Nazi hands.
W7ZjB TIL that music video for Al Bano and Romina Power hit "Felicità" was filmed in St. Petersburg (then known as Leningrad)
jVNj TIL That Cleveland Brown will be returning to Quahog with his new family after the cancellation of ‘The Cleveland Show’
rRpNW TIL JFK's "Death Limo" was rebuilt after his assignation and used into the Carter administration.