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TIL Bats Are Very Social Creatures, Sharing Food With Close Friends And Remembering All "Scrooges" In Their Surroundings

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m1NpP TIL that Costco Wholesaler has a funeral section and sells caskets.
9YEoQ TIL before 1975, the BBC overwrote or destroyed old show tapes. Hundreds of Doctor Who episodes were thought lost forever, until a worldwide hunt began to turn them up—e.g. 2 in a London Mormon Church, and a goldmine 9 in Nigeria (employees had ignored instructions to burn them). 97 remain unfound.
78Zxx TIL about the Somaliland campaign, a series of military expeditions in northern Somalia by the British Empire against the Dervish movement from 1900 to 1920. It ended when the British aerially bombed the Dervish capital. 100K to 150K Somali civilians were ultimately killed in the campaign.
0oYR TIL Drug overdose deaths, driven largely by prescription drug overdose deaths, are now the leading cause of injury death in the United States – surpassing motor vehicle crashes.
adWb TIL there are many cases of Canadians who find out they never had Canadian citizenship because they were born in a U.S. hospital.