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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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9YZQB TIL That Albatross can fly for SEVEN Years without returning to the Land, and can fly up to 800 KM/day. They also mate for life and spend months apart from their mate.
vP8xr TIL in 2000 Alabama became the last state to repeal its law against interracial marriage. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned state bans on interracial marriage in 1967.
vJKL TIL that until the invention of the wall outlet, people had plug their electric appliances into an empty light bulb socket.
eNeD TIL In Finland, nearly every newborn is sent home with a free, government-issued cardboard box. It contains clothes, blankets, and other newborn necessities, and the Baby Box itself - which is lined with a mattress - can be used as the child’s first bed.
D1ekY TIL in the 1900s, Radithor was marketed as an energy drink, but was really just distilled water with radium in it. When the first person died of the radiation poisoning, he had to be buried in a lead coffin. His body was still radioactive when he was disinterred years later.