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TIL that the 1955 children's book "When the Robbers Came to Cardamom Town" is considered to have contributed significantly to criminology in Norway

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ADGkl TIL Honduran white bats (Ectophylla alba) or Caribbean white tent-making bats, create their own daytime sleeping quarters by using their teeth to cut the ribs of large leaves causing them to fold down to form a tent. They appear as white puffballs when they gather in groups.The bats mostly eat figs.
VOmm TIL Russia and Pakistan are connected by the longest ocean going straight line in the world. You can travel the 20,000 mile journey without turning.
oBkDE TIL a man who was paralyzed from a surfing accident neck injury was able to walk again from an experimental treatment. Stem cells from the man's own stomach fat were injected into his spinal cord to regenerate and repair the injury.
wokA6 TIL Hitler's dad originally went by the name Alois Schicklgruber before changing his last name to 'Hitler' in 1876
mxnlx TIL that pirates didn't wear the eyepatches because of a lost eye, it was actually to be able to see below deck, where it was dark.