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TIL Using machine learning, researchers have been able to decode what fruit bats are saying--surprisingly, they mostly argue with one another.

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neRlG TIL About the underground city of Derinkuyu, located in Turkey. Large enough to hold 20 000 people and containing chapels, storage rooms and stables it was re-discovered accidentally when a Turkish man was trying to expand his home and knocked down a wall leading into the tunnel complex.
j6NGa TIL in 2009 women in a Colombian village went on a sex strike to get the men to repair the only road in and out of town. 112 days later work began on the highway.
VBwJQ TIL that Disney has produced 5 of the top 10 largest box office bombs in history for a total loss (adjusted for inflation) of over $1B. Additionally, Taylor Kitsch was the leading man in 2 of the top 10, both of which released in 2012.
PYN5V TIL Maniple was the basic tactical unit of Roman in the 3rd century BC (the polybian legion). a maniple consisted of two centuries. The centurion of the right-handed century had a right to choose the centurion of the left-handed century and was also in charge of the maniple
jWp TIL that 1991 to 2000, about 90% of the world’s LSD was made by one man.