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TIL Wind turbines can kill bats without impact, they die because their lungs explode from a drop in air pressure.

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xPRb TIL that Quentin Tarantino’s films all exist in a universe where Hitler died in the cinema in ‘Inglorious Basterds’.
a8MdJ TIL about Walter F. White, an NAACP leader for over 25 years who passed as white, infiltrated lynching rings, and architected Brown v. Board of Education. Despite controversy surrounding his methods, his work exposed injustices and advanced civil rights.
QPZa TIL that the way Walter White “cooked” meth in Breaking Bad would not make a nearly 100% pure form of meth. In fact it would be closer to 50%.
k6GE TIL One of the Hyena’s Ancestors Had a Bite that Could Splinter Elephant Bones
4vP6 TIL Cartman killed his own dad. Scott Tenorman’s dad, Jack Tenorman, was Eric Cartman’s real father.