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TIL that prairie dogs have a complex language where they can form sentences

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GYlW5 TIL carbon dating is useless to date anything after 1950 and will be useless for the forseeable future because of the amount of change in carbon-14 levels from human nuclear weapons detonations.
8e7kV TIL the kitti’s hog-nosed bat, AKA the bumblebee bat, is arguably the smallest mammal, measuring in at 1.1 to 1.3 inches in length and 2g in weight. They are also little home bodies, leaving their roosts for less than an hour a day for food.
ZlKR TIL that no study has shown the food additive MSG to be dangerous and the entire public outcry against it in the 1970s was because of one letter sent to the New England Journal of Medicine
9YpGr TIL - Andre the Giant holds the record for the most beers consumed in 1 sitting. 119 beers in 6 hours is a beer every 3 minutes!
v10Y4 TIL that popular children's detective Cam Jansen has always eaten kosher and never solved a case on Saturdays, because author David Adler is an Orthodox Jew.