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TIL the US worked to develop "Bat Bomb" - bombs that were loaded with 1k chilled bats with time-release Napalm glued to their bodies. The project was canceled because the Atomic Bomb was finished first.

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E1Nl0 TIL of Freedom Day: On Feb 3, 1964, nearly half a million New York City school students protested against segregation. The largest protest for civil rights in US history, it was twice as large as Martin Luther King Jr's March on Washington.
lLjB TIL a lobster’s brain is located in its throat, its nervous system in its abdomen, its teeth in its stomach and its kidneys in its head. It also hears using its legs, tastes with its feet, and tends to favor one front limb, meaning they can be right-clawed or left-clawed.
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