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Today I learned that the world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat, which weighs less than a penny and can fit on the end of your finger.

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neeEP TIL the last native speaker of Scottish Norse died in 1850, and fragments survived until at least the 1890s
bdoN TIL of Roy Benavidez. He volunteered to be dropped into a firefight against 1000 NVA to save his 12 man team, armed with only a knife. He was wounded 37 times in a 6hr battle, believed dead, and was placed in a body bag. He saved his mates, survived, and received the MoH.
mxM7P TIL that in 2014 an orangutan named Sandra was considered "a non-human person" by an Argentinian court, thus resulting in her release from the Buenos Aires Zoo to go to a sanctuary. But in 2016, an appellate court reversed the ruling of Justice Liberatori that Sandra was a non-human person
OooOL TIL that Guam's jungles have as many as 40 times the amount of spiders as nearby islands due to a lack of forest birds.
oRKaK TIL that there are 3 borders between U.S. states over which there are ongoing disputes