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TIL around 25% of all mammal species are bats

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9YrxD TIL Ravens can solve puzzles that require a flexible planning ability previously documented only in people and great apes. They learned to pass up a small food reward in favor of a tool they used to get a much better reward and barter with bottle caps, concepts a toddler would struggle to understand
b98w9 TIL that during the 1983 invasion of Grenada, the american invading force lacked maps of their own and instead used maps intended for tourists
PrXJ TIL that Heinrich Ehrler, a German Ace in WW2, shot down two bombers and rammed the last one, destroying both planes in the process. His last words were “Theo, Heinrich here. Have just shot down two bombers. No more ammunition. I’m going to ram. Auf Wiedersehen, see you in Valhalla!”
5V47D TIL About Eunice aphroditois, or Bobbit Worm, an ambush predator that can grow up to 3 m long and can split into 2 new individuals.
9wwB TIL that the Catholic Church considers the theory of evolution to be “virtually certain”, and believes that intelligent design “isn’t science even though it pretends to be”.