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TIL the Rock Hyrax, a small rabbit-like animal, is the closest living relative to elephants.

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pOyG TIL that more Portuguese live in Luxembourg than Germans, Belgians and French combined
b6X00 TIL that the scientific name (Genus and species) for the Boa Constrictor is Boa constrictor.
6EjkY TIL one of the few times Pink Floyd allowed the music to be used for corporate advertising was a bizarre 1973 ad for Dole bananas.
m1EZO TIL Canine Distemper Virus is lethal to pandas. Between December 2014 and March 2015, five captive giant pandas died due to canine distemper virus (CDV) infection in China.
bL57 TIL of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomena which is the illusion in which a word, a name or other thing that has recently come to one’s attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards