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TIL there are ‘Bat Flies’ which are wingless and spider-shaped, live on bat blood, and raise a single larva which develops inside the female, fed by internal lactating glands

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XEKP TIL that in 1951, Hank Williams Sr. intentionally left his money clip behind at a restaurant. A lady returned it to him and he thanked her, took the money out, pocketed the clip, and gave her all the money.
VM4R8 TIL of James Tilly Matthews, an 18th-century peace activist who fell under the delusion that his thoughts were being remotely controlled by an apparatus he called the “Air Loom”. His case is considered to be an early example of paranoid schizophrenia.
Nplb TIL that Huey Lewis sued Ray Parker Jr. for plagiarism over the Ghostbusters theme song and won.
9wLRm TIL in 2012, a computer history museum in California sent a team to Sparkler Filters, a company in Texas, to try to coax them into selling their IBM 402 with Model 129 key punch that was being used for accounting work and inventory. In 2013, the company was still using the machine.
4kAVg TIL a Greenland shark — a species that's half-blind, scavenge on polar bear carcasses, survives for hundreds of years and is thought to live in freezing Arctic waters — was discovered in an unexpected place: Belize.