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TIL that all bats are either "microbats" or "megabats".

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bPkN TIL Scientists at Oregon State University have developed an algae the tastes “just like bacon” when fried and has nearly twice the nutritional value as kale
E1kxd TIL In 2019, researchers painted cows black-and-white and found that fly bites reduced by 50%, because flies are less likely to sit on black-and-white striped surfaces. They have proposed this method as a possible prevention technique for the spread of disease through fly bites.
0d9AL TIL that a depressed teen convinced his friend, using six made-up online characters, to kill him. Totaling over 56,000 lines of text, he told his him that his reward would be money, a job as a British secret service agent and sex with a middle-aged spy.
8aob8 TIL Mila Kunis was born in Ukraine and moved to this country not speaking any English. At age 14 she started playing Jackie Burkhart, lying about her age (the producers asked if if she was turning 18 and she simply said yes not indicating exactly when).
4kOy5 TIL that The Narmer Palette is an Ancienf Egyptian artefact containing one of the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions. It describes the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt by King Narmer in ca. 3100 BCE.