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TIL that crows recognise human faces and hold grudges against ones they don’t like

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8a5L TIL three times as many left-handed people have schizophrenia, bipolar disease or autism.
jNG0n TIL that the movie Swingers cost about $750K to make. $500K for music licensing and $250K for the actual movie itself
LQXap TIL the Saturn V rocket, which first took humans to the Moon, weighed just under three million kilogrammes before launch, or roughly the weight of 400 elephants. More than 90% of this weight was fuel alone, leaving a payload of just 43,000 kilogrammes to reach the Moon's orbit.
KyJ6 TIL vampire bats not only drink the blood of their prey, but urinate on the prey as they do so.
BM5W TIL that in 1527 189 Swiss guards held off 20,000 Mercenaries so the pope at the time could escape. The pope managed to escape and later hired the 40 guards that survived to be his personal guards.