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Til that one out of every 5 mammal species is a bat.
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9kLB
TIL there’s a valve in fetal hearts that diverts blood away from the lungs while in utero. It begins closing at the first breath as the baby gets oxygen from it’s own lungs for the first time.
epD1k
TIL that King's School, Canterbury, is Britain's oldest public school; and is arguably the oldest continuously operating school in the world, since education on the Abbey and Cathedral grounds has been uninterrupted since AD 597.
AD8l7
TIL that people misunderstood the 12 years to save the earth. the IPCC never said the world is gonna end in 12 years they said we have 12 to go carbon neutral. but got oversimplified to 12 years which made people think in 12 years the world ends.
16KrO
TIL about a group of noblemen were (allegedly) insulted as "beggars" when presenting a petition to King Philip II's half-sister. They took the insult and turned it into a defiant badge of honor, wearing rough grey cloaks and carrying beggar's bowls.
roeW
TIL the average Buzzfeed article is written at only a 4th grade level