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TIL there have been no successful attempts to reach the Sentinelese people, rendering them completely isolated from the rest of the world

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RJg8 TIL that vampire bats will die if they can’t find blood for two nights in a row. Luckily, generous well-fed bats will often regurgitate blood to share with others, in exchange for grooming. This has been noted by many naturalists as an example of reciprocal altruism in nature.
PlOw TIL The domestic cat is a revered animal in Islam. Admired for its cleanliness as well as for being loved by Prophet Muhammad. He reported to have said that “a love of cats is an aspect of faith.
lobpK TIL That Medival Europeans thought that a brownstone supposedly found in old toads heads could cure almost any poison and the stones were often made into highly prized jewelry. These stones were in fact fossils dating from the Jurassic/Cretaceous period and had no curative properties.
DLVg TIL that a woman driving to a Dave Matthews concert stopped to help a motorcyclist with a flat tire, who turned out to be Dave Matthews. She and her boyfriend got front row seats, backstage passes, and Matthews took them to dinner afterwords.
Ogy7 TIL the Aztecs once fed 200K people in inarable swampy land by creating floating gardens they farmed extensively