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TIL April 17th is International Bat Appreciation Day
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TIL- The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant which suffered a reactor melt down in 1986, continued to produce electricity until 2000, and still has three intact nuclear reactors.
NExM
TIL that the awesome 3-D sound we had in ‘90s games used binaural technology, but new games can’t use it because of patent issues.
9PWB
TIL in 1781 a slave ship threw 133 slaves overboard because they were sickly and wouldn’t fetch a good price. The owner took the insurance company to court to claim payment for the lost property and won.
PYDdO
TIL there's an Arm Wrestling betting/match service called ArmBet
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TIL that the CGI Empire State Building from Peter Jackson’s “King Kong” took 18 months to create. The real building only took 14 months.