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TIL that bats are responsible for pollinating agave plants for making tequila

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yQAYp TIL Popular drug educator and Youtuber Krystle Cole aka "Neurosoup" was involved in the brutal torture of 18 year old Brandon Green
m1nvP TIL Emperor Jing of the Han dynasty of China, while he was crown prince, beat his cousin to death with the board during a board game argument. Said cousin was the crown prince of one of Emperor Jing's vassal states, and his death resulted in his father hating Emperor Jing and eventually rebelling.
4Xkla TIL that the Holy Roman state of Hesse-Kessel became a "mercenary state" renting out its army to other major powers. The state maintained strict neutrality, to the point that it would rent out soldiers to both sides of a conflict and the Hessian soldiers would end up fighting each other.
6yMl TIL that Pornhub, Brazzers, YouPorn, Mofos, Digital Playground, Redtube, Reality Kings and many many other porn sites, production studios and cam sites are all owned by a company called MindGeek, giving it a near-absolute monopoly on the way mainstream pornography is manufactured and distributed
VMlQB TIL Stanford University developed Artificial Intelligence which can guess if a person is gay, based on a photo of their face, with 91% accuracy on dating sites.