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TIL one 5th of all mammal species are bats, and their ancestors appeared at the time of the dinosaurs

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N77KE TIL that Shakespeare's wife's name was Anne Hathaway
BrGKr TIL that before enlisting in the navy, John F. Kennedy had a brief stint at Stanford business school before dropping out, commenting that he “had become very fond of Stanford. Everyone is friendly—the gals are quite attractive—and it’s a very good life.”
v7J7 TIL there was a tradition in Norway, Denmark and the Faroe Islands where a girl would knit a “willy warmer” (also known as cock sock) to their boyfriends to see how seriously he took their relationship. If the gift was rejected, it was seen as evidence that he was not ready for marriage.
p8NmZ TIL that while everyone thought of Issac Newton as a man of physics and calculus, his real passion was alchemy and spent most of his time attempting to make a philosopher’s stone – a rock that could transform any metal into gold and make people immortal.