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TIL it is a myth that bats use their echolocation to deftly maneuver around one another. High speed cameras show that bats crash into each other all the time.

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m6Ly TIL California’s largest body of water, the Salton Sea, was created by an engineering mistake. Irrigation canals were dug from the Colorado river to the Salton sink. When the river flooded a dyke was breached and the entire Colorado river poured into the sink making the sea.
6XYl TIL if you tie a plastic bag around leaves on a tree you’ll get enough drinkable water to keep you from dehydration
e7A4 TIL that a sloths digestive system is so slow it can starve to death on a full stomach
nwOd TIL a radio station offered six figures to anyone that would get a tattoo of the station’s logo onto their forehead. A man and his stepson did so and upon requesting the money they were told they “weren’t entitled to anything.”
xVDe1 TIL That ancient Greeks hung a branch of bay over the door of a sick person to fend off evil and death. This led to the garlanding of newly qualified doctors with a bay wreath, known as the Bacca laureus in Latin, which gave us the word "baccalaureate" (University Degree).