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TIL that viruses have significant prevalence and diversity among bats, yet they rarely cause bats to suffer from disease.

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6EW7W TIL During a Geneva summit in 1985 President Ronald Reagan and the Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to pause the cold war and set differences aside in the case of an Alien Invasion
R5ay4 TIL Nick Cave wrote a sequel for Gladiator where Maximus is resurrected to kill Jesus Christ
R5BN9 TIL The company that produced the original animated "The Hobbit" (and Nausicaa), Topcraft, would later become Studio Ghibili.
N7wRM TIL that on the night of September 10th, 2001, an artist by the name Monika Bravo filmed 7 hours of footage of a thunderstorm from the 91st floor of the WTC North Tower. She took the raw footage home with her that night. The next morning, both towers collapsed. The video she edited is found here:
4j06 TIL that the “essential” in Essential Oils means “essence of” and not “indispensable to humans” like it does in essential fatty acids or essential amino acids.