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TIL that without bats there would be no tequila. It’s made from the agave plant, which is pollinated by bats.

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ADjlx TIL about Izumi Sakai, the vocalist and de facto leader of the J-Pop band Zard. After she died from an accident while undergoing treatment for cancer, a posthumous single was released and used as a theme song for her favorite anime Detective Conan
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RQXl TIL that the word “ok” as we know it today, as a synonym for “alright”, is only about 175 years old. It was originally written as a joke that went viral in 1839 by a Boston editorial writer satirizing people’s bad grammar and use of abbreviations, and was an abbreviation for “oll korrect”.
EdW7 TIL someone made 49 Twitter accounts with which he/she is reenacting the entirety of Back to the Future