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TIL Ursula von der Leyen has seven children and was a housewife through much of the 90s.

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4kB45 TIL that the largest vampire bat in history attacked animals as large as deer. The wingspan of 'Desmodus draculae' was 20 inches. It may have inspired a Mayan bat-god, and legends of a vulture-sized blood-eating bat. Believed extinct, but stories continue of "large bats attacking cattle and horses".
e0XY5 TIL we have left so much waste on the moon including robots, spacecraft parts, moon buggies and much more hardware. "The least charming are 96 bags for poo, urine and vomit that scientists, being scientists, are keen to get their hands on should the opportunity arise."
KOdd4 TIL during the making of ‘Borat,’ the police were called 92 times on Sacha Baron Cohen.
5QR TIL that penicillin was so scarce and precious before 1944 that it was extracted from the patients’ urine to be re-used
PDMV TIL that throughout the duration of HBO’s The Wire, police only fire their weapons three times. All three times it’s the same officer.