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TIL Christian saint Josaphat is a Christianized version of the story of Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha.

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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.
wg08 TIL that Converse Chuck Taylors have fuzz on the soles so that they can be classified as slippers, which are subject to much lower U.S. import tariffs than sneakers.
4XwEo TIL 29 of the 30 most watched broadcasts in the United States were Super Bowls, with the other one being the final episode of MAS*H
v1Ljx TIL Helen Keller took over the controls of a Douglas Skymaster airplane for 20 minutes while flying over the Mediterranean during a trip from Rome to Paris. The instructions were relayed from the pilot to Polly Thompson, and then to Helen through fingerspelling.
oBwkY TIL that the Hostile attribution bias is the tendency to interpret others' behaviors as having hostile intent, even when the behavior is ambiguous or benign.