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TIL around 25% of all mammal species are bats

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9JlB TIL that three bodies were found in a storage room on the USS West Virginia when she was re-floated after Pearl Harbor. A calendar kept by the men indicated that they had survived for over two weeks after the attack. [Repost]
Ev5V TIL that a professor in Japan found that lightning strikes can double the size and amount of mushrooms in the wild. He decided to research this based on how consistently the myth of this phenomenon was found throughout the world. They suspect the electricity powers an enzyme that spurs growth.
79Gb TIL the actor who played young Forrest Gump is now 30, and he served an 18-month tour in Iraq.
xpxb TIL of a banker in a small Florida town who encouraged people to buy shares of Coke during the Depression and now the town has “secret Coke millionaires”
XEoaR TIL in 2011 when Lisa Lampanelli learned the Westboro Baptist Church planned to protest one of her shows. She promised to donate $1000 for every WBC member that showed up. Ultimately 44 members showed up, and she donated $50,000 to charity with the memo stating “Donation made possible by the WBC”