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TIL a single little brown bat can eat up to 1,200 mosquitoes an hour.

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16n67 TIL That Jimmy Fallon was in Band of Brothers. As I am currently rewatching band of Brothers after nearly a decade, I stumbled across a scene that had me shivering. At the end of episode 5, Jimmy Fallon appears as a courier that delivers material right before Easy Company enters Bastogne.
b6Jw9 TIL that when DiCaprio told Cameron "Oh, I don't read" for parts regarding the role of Jack in Titanic, the director shook his hand and said "Well, thanks for coming by." After realizing that he had to audition if he wanted the part, he reluctantly agreed to do so with immediate success. 3:03
p8aa4 TIL that, despite being built in 280 BC, the Colossus of Rhodes was approximately as tall as the Statue of Liberty.
4XlPX TIL that 15 years ago, Berkeley Researchers recovered "typed text using audio recording of keystrokes"
9YdvG TIL about the Antikythera mechanism, an Analogue Computer from 100 BC used to predict astronomical positions for calendars decades in advance.