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TIL most fruitbats don't use echolocation and actually have keen eyesight and senses of smell.

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pAD4 TIL only one person has ever been executed by the state of Wisconsin. The public execution was so graphic and horrible that Wisconsin abolished the death penalty two years later.
x6rl5 TIL that Sparta Pop Culture image of Military Prowess is mostly a myth as Spartans were land owning aristocrats who only had citizens militia.
5Y0P8 TIL: Graham Crackers Were Created to Kill Your Sex Drive
Xml6 TIL the Aral Sea, once the 4th largest lake in the world, has been steadily shrinking since the 1960’s. It’s now 1/10th the original size. Nearly 90% of the water has now given way to sandy desert with wrecks of beached boats dotting the surface.
1ag4X TIL of Huang Yijun, a 92-year-old woman who delivered a 60-year-old "stone baby" (calcified fetus) in 2009