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TIL nearly ¼ of all mammal species are bats.

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w4O1 TIL that there used to be a popular children’s game called “mumblety-peg.” Children would compete to see who could throw a knife into the ground closer to their own feet. The loser had to pick his knife out of the ground with his teeth. Impaling your foot was an automatic win.
mxjEp TIL In their 30 years together, Paul and Linda McCartney spent only one night apart
PYr7G TIL the oldest lobster ever caught was estimated to be 140 years old, also as lobsters age, they tend to grow bigger and heavier. The 140-year-old lobster weighed 44 pounds.
lobV5 TIL of the episode Home, from The X-Files. The Episode was so disturbing it was banned from resyndication after its initial release on FOX.
Zp0Lo TIL that the B-2 bomber includes an upward facing light sensor, which alerts the pilot to increase or reduce altitude to match the underside paint job to the changing illuminance of the sky to also make it visually stealthy.