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TIL Kit-Kat bars come in various flavors, including Aloe Vera

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NXVy8 TIL swans in the United Kingdom belong to the crown, except in Orkney and Shetland: there they are the property of the people due to udal law, a Norse-derived legal system
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".
9Yg1B TIL Rifles like the AK-47 have curved magazines because their bullet cases are conical (a.k.a "tapered") rather than cylindrical. Thus, they stack in a curve. Tapered cases have less friction with the chamber when they feed or extract.
X07VE TIL That the word gender wasn’t popularized until around the 80s and overtook sex in determining infants in the 90s
d87 Today I learned cicadas have evolved 13 and 17 year breeding cycles, because prime integers rarely sync with other integers making it rare that they will breed in sync with predators.