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

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PYPLJ TIL in 1941 the owners of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles NFL teams swapped franchises, meaning all players relocated and the teams were renamed. Despite the 1940 Eagles and 1941 Eagles being completely different teams, the NFL considers them one unbroken entity.
OBPY TIL That if every single person on Earth moved to South Africa tomorrow, the population density would still be lower than in Tokyo today.
NLyP TIL Cameron Lyle, a college senior track and field athlete was awarded the NCAA’s Award of Valor in 2013 for ending his collegiate career one month early, ending his chances for a gold medal, in order to be a bone marrow donor to a 28 year old father with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
M6bb TIL the U.S. government spent years holding fake arrival ceremonies honoring the return of American soldiers killed in WWII, Vietnam, and Korea to American soil, but the planes were actually empty. The ceremonies were known by staff as “The Big Lie.”
Br0bk TIL during the meltdown, Chernobyl electrician Oleksander Lelechenko saved his younger colleagues from radiation exposure by walking through radioactive water three times to effect emergency repairs alone. He died in Kiev hospital less than 2 weeks after the disaster