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TIL that the saliva from vampire bats acts as a anticoagulant, and is now used as an effective mediation for stroke victims. It’s called Draculin after Dracula.

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VvnD TIL NASA has it’s own internet radio station called ‘Third Rock Radio’ which plays Indie/Alternative rock music with NASA news items and mission updates embedded throughout the broadcast
QNRBX TIL Hard Rock Cafes have one menu item named after a song, and that item is "One NIght in Bangkok Spicy Shrimp"
6EyWl Til 60% of all vocabulary in the modern Japanese dictionary are chinese loanwords
6EAXX TIL that archers would poop in their designated place in the battlefield and then stick the arrows in the poop to spread infection through not fatal wounds
neJJY TIL Iceland has a Horse Naming Commission that oversees horse names across the country to ensure that no horse gets a foreign, vulgar, or inappropriate name.