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TIL During World War II, a Pennsylvania dentist proposed to President Roosevelt to bomb Japan with timed explosives attached to thousands of bats.

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0deb5 TIL that one of the first devices made to estimate electric voltage, the "Frog Galvanoscope" of the late 1700s, was named after its crude method of attaching electrical wires directly to the exposed nerve of a recently skinned frog leg, which would jerk suddenly in response to electric current.
BDKy TIL In the month before the ancient Olympics no wars were permitted so that spectators could travel from across Greece unharmed
1JGr TIL Moose and elk have been known to get drunk on frozen and slightly fermented apples and commit shenanigans such as breaking into shoe stores and getting stuck in trees.
yVj4w TIL the full development archive of a SpongeBob PS1 game was leaked after the developer, Climax Studios, sold off their assets on eBay. In the leaked files, there exists concept art sketches (apparently created by a dev) that depict SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy having anal sex.
6BNm TIL, New Rome Ohio, a small town with 60 residents and 14 police officers, raised nearly $400,000 annually from speeding tickets.