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TIL Raccoons are an invasive species in Central Europe and Japan

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x6mK1 TIL that moka pot was invented by the italian Alfonso Bialetti in 1933 and named after the city of Mocha, in Yemen, renowned for the quality of its coffee.
AD09w TIL Not all bats live in caves. These thumb-sized Honduran White Bats sleep in leaves in the rainforest. They are polygamous. Each leaf-tent houses a single male and his harem of up to six females.
78g6X TIL that in 2006, the movie Blazing Saddles was found to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress. It has since been preserved in the National Film Registry.
W7vQL TIL in the summer of 1977, New Yorkers turned the surrounding area around the Twin Towers into a makeshift beach using dirt excavated for the construction of the original World Trade Center.
VMAQD TIL the streets of medieval England were often named after the activities that went on there (Baker Street, Church Hill). "Gropecunt Lane" is exactly what you think it is.