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TIL A man who’s filed over 10,000 lawsuits sued Guinness World Records for naming him The World’s Most Litigious Man

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Q1jp TIL in 1952 after a good samaritan helped capture notorious bank robber Willie Sutton, NYC Mob Boss Albert Anastasia ordered the man dead after watching an interview with him on TV saying “I can’t stand squealers! Hit that guy!”. The man was killed a few days later. Sutton had no Mob connections
r7KW TIL the honeyguide bird uses calls that it only makes to humans to guide them to bee hives. It then expects it’s share of honey in return.
mG9Y TIL that in 19th century England, a man by the name of Jack Black was an expert rat catcher. When he caught rats of unusual colour, he would breed them and sell the well bred rats to nobility. Even Queen Victoria kept a pet rat or two.
NXg7e TIL Rhode Island is home to the world’s largest artificial bug
9K77 TIL Humans almost became extinct about 70,000 yeas ago when the total population dropped below 2,000