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TIL that bats use echolocation to find food in the dark. They make high-pitched sounds that bounce off objects, helping them figure out where stuff is. It's like their own built-in radar!

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p8vZA TIL that 500 years ago, China destroyed its world-dominating navy because its political elite was afraid of free trade. Some vessels were 6x larger than Columbus' Santa Maria.
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