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TIL Researchers have determined that bats address each other as individuals and frequently get into arguments.

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rRWl0 TIL that in one of the most unusual instances of "twin films" (movies released around the same time, about the same subject) both Kalifornia (1993) and Natural Born Killers (1994) were based on spree killer Charles Starkweather AND starred Juliette Lewis in the role of the killer's girlfriend.
dG8Q TIL Frank Zappa made a quilt composed entirely of panties that were thrown on stage. He did not wash them first.
69VGJ TIL every time a deck of cards is shuffled the probability that sequence of cards has ever existed before is infinitesimally small due to the immensity of 52!
ZJGQ TIL that a company filtered applications out by those who used Chrome or Firefox instead of Internet Explorer because they were deemed to be more capable.
p8JL8 TIL that in 2005, scientists found a 20cm long stone penis, in a German cave. It is about 28,000 years old and is believed to have been used as a dildo.