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TIL of Bracken Cave near San Antonio, Texas. The world's biggest bat cave, it hosts about 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats from March to October, the largest concentration of mammals anywhere on earth

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N74M1 TIL Benjamin Franklin had an abusive older brother who forced him to sign an indenture until he was 21 in Boston. His brother was abusive partly because Benjamin showed talent. At age 17, he ran away penniless to Philadelphia, gained connections and jump-started his political career.
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69QGl Today I learned In 1981, General Mills received the first patent for a microwave oven popcorn bag; popcorn consumption saw a sharp increase then by tens of thousands of pounds.
69X8J TIL that the French Revolution, and with it our liberal-democratic basic order, came about as a result of a investment bubble that burst in the 18th century.