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TIL A man escaped prison using a cardboard box aka Solid Snake syle

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x0k0 TIL Bats use sound to sabotage/jam rival bats’ sensors, so they can steal their prey (some also engage in fellatio).
bDjE TIL in 1803 a mysterious beautiful woman in a circular UFO-looking boat called a Utsuro-bune washed ashore on a remote Japanese fishing village. She spoke no Japanese and carried a box depicting strange symbols that nobody was allowed to touch.
xwvk TIL that Eminem was asleep at home with his daughter after watching cartoons when it was announced he won an Oscar for “Lose Yourself”
awbvy TIL that the sun will transform into a red giant in a few billion years and expand to 256 times it's size. Mercury, Venus and Earth will get engulfed and the habitable zone will be pushed well into the Kuiper Belt. A host of new moons are expected to become suitable for the existence of life.
Jbxl TIL of a community of ex-slaves that spoke their native language and carried on their tribal customs and traditions into the 1950s in Alabama.