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TIL that bats in the US eat so many insects that they save farmers an estimated $22.9 billion every year on pesticides.

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x6EQ7 TIL that Arizona authorities recently conspired to deploy Zyklon B (the same hydrogen cyanide agent used to kill hundreds of thousands of Auschwitz prisoners) for executions
Oo6g TIL GZA of Wu Tang Clan is writing a series of albums dealing with science so as to get more people hooked on science.
x6a0D TIL that Jonathan Nolan said of his brother Christopher, "I’ve always suspected that it has something to do with the fact that he’s left-handed and I’m right-handed, because he is somehow able to look at my ideas and flip them around in a way that’s just a bit more twisted and interesting"
a7v0 TIL that in Saudia Arabia a wife is entitled to divorce her husband if he does not supply her with fresh coffee.
8eMDG TIL in June 2009 the patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, said he would announce the unveiling of the Ark of the Covenant, which had been kept safe in Ethiopia. The following day he announced that he would not unveil the Ark after all, but that he could attest to its current status.