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TIL Bats account for 20% of all mammal species worldwide.

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8al6X TIL National Lampoon magazine had a front cover featuring a dog with a gun to its head, saying “if you don’t buy this magazine, we’ll kill this dog”. Three years later, somebody tracked the dog down and killed it. The dog was named Cheeseface.
JYLPQ TIL although Benjamin Franklin never tried to get the turkey as the national bird, he did think eagles were bad moral creatures and that turkeys were much more respectable.
GyLN TIL The Museum of Endangered Sounds exists to allow streaming of once popular technological sounds. ie. the dial-up tone, ICQ chat tone, Windows 95 startup
77jb TIL that Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesterton, and other British mystery writers formed the Detection Club. Members swore an oath to not use “Divine Revelation, Feminine Intuition, Mumbo Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Coincidence, or Act of God” in stories. Founded in 1930, the club still exists.
X4eX TIL that replacing metal wires and cabling with fiber optics will reduce the weight of United State’s next tank (M1A3) by 2 tons.