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TIL the exceptionally articulate child spokesman for Shriners Hospital is a teenager who aspires to be a sportscaster and already has his own YouTube sports channel

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yZbl TIL most of Sigmund Freud’s theories have been completely discredited to the point that almost no institution in any discipline would dare use him as a credible source
exLg TIL that a minor league pitcher was once traded for ten 34" maple bats.
e08kL TIL Not only do bats make high-pitched sounds for echolocation, many bat species also sing. A team of scientists that analyzed one species’ song translated it as a sequence that opens with a hello, then a gender identification, then some geographic information, & then a "let's talk" section.
QJ8LE TIL Banks have not resolved their ethics issues since the 2008 financial crisis due to "deep-seated cultural failures at many large financial institutions"
gMVvX TIL Imperial Germany had made plans to invade the US between 1897 and 1903 just to gain some Carribean colonies.