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TIL one out of every four animals on Earth is a beetle.

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pQj8 TIL that Kangaroos don’t sweat, so they lick their paws and then rub them to their chest for cooling
R5KR6 TIL Yucatan in the 1840s gained it's independence from Mexico and tried to get annexed by the United States. The bill to do so passed in the House, but failed in the Senate. By the end of the decade, Yucatan rejoined Mexico.
ZjbQ TIL that Monty Python’s Life of Brian was marketed in Sweden as “so funny it was banned in Norway.”
jP8N TIL that Michael Keaton was only onscreen for 7.5 minutes in the 92 minute movie Beetlejuice.
YNnZ TIL that research shows that over the last 25 years the difference in effectiveness between real drugs and placebos has narrowed and even more so in the US than anywhere else