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TIL A Certain Species of Tiger Moths Can "Jam" the Echolocation of Bats' by Producing Similar High Pitches Noises

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pY784 TIL: Tetris blocks actually have names and they're incredibly weird
7QoP TIL that the folklore of the indigenous people of Flores, Indonesia tells of short, hairy humanoids who spoke their own language. In 2003, archaeologists found fossils of dwarf humanoids on Flores – which were 13,000 years old.
Br6oD TIL about cooping, a type of electoral fraud where voters were "cooped" up, given enough alcohol to make them complacent, and tricked into voting for specific candidates.
LkvQd TIL that the iconic neon cowboy in Las Vegas has a name, "Vegas Vic."
VM8G TIL you could crawl through the arteries in a blue whales heart