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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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aRw9 Til I learned that theres a group in germany called Prevention Project Dunkelfeld that gives clinical and support services to Peadophiles that haven’t offended and want to control their sexual urges.
rkro TIL Thomas Midgley Jr, inventor of CFC and leaded gasoline, who is regarded as having the greatest impact on the atmosphere of any single organism in history also accidentally strangled himself to death with his final invention.
JYAE8 TIL that nudists refer to non-nudists as “Textiles”
4kaPg TIL of the Astronomical Unit, or AU, a unit of length equivalent to the distance between the Earth and the Sun, measuring 149,597,870.7 kilometres exactly. It's also a fundamental component in defining another unit of astronomical measurement, the parsec.
X0OZP TIL 130 million American adults have low literacy skills with 54% of people 16-74 below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level