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TIL there exists a centipede the size of your forearm that lives in caves, and catches bats in mid-flight.

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R7E94 TIL that the crime that led Sisyphus to push a boulder was cheating death. He made his wife not bury him properly before he died, chained death, and tricked Persephone into letting him briefly return to earth to scold his wife and ran away instead of returning to hell.
PYlKJ TIL that "Dora the Explorer" is a pun on the Spanish word for explorer: "exploradora"
PbVG TIL British rapper M.I.A. named her debut album “Arular” after the nom de guerre of her father, who fought in his native Sri Lanka as a Tamil Tiger. Her hope - which would be realized - was that he would one day google his old name, find her album, and reconnect with her.
xVOOD TIL that during WWI, the Germans tried to convince the Allied soldiers at Dunkirk to surrender using propaganda leaflets dropped from the air. The soldiers used these leaflets as toilet paper.
d8XWr TIL along with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bombing of Tokyo was just as bad but often overlooked. Over 100,000 people were killed, several times that number injured, and 1,000,000 displaced in a napalm-filled, incendiary bomb attack by 334 low-flying B-29 bombers.