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TIL Vampire bats sometimes make blood donations to other bats in the group to combat starvation

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nxbr TIL only about %4 of the money raised by the National Breast Cancer Research Center goes to research.
16aJ7 TIL the Intermarium, a post WW1 proposal to unite former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth land and territories lying between the Baltic, Black and Adriatic Seas
nePgd TIL that Michael Bay's science fiction film "Armageddon" received the prestigious Criterion Collection treatment, dedicated to publishing important classic and contemporary films from around the world.
oRrYo TIL that Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics talked so much trash to the opposing side, their bench would start cheering Larry when he scored and got fined by the league.
71XO TIL: In a 2012 British random sampling of 68 recent convictions involving child sexual exploitation, 59 of the offenders were Pakistani men, that is approximately 87%.