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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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699dm TIL self checkouts can recognise produce items and they give you a list to choose from based on what they ‘see’
8vLZ TIL that a lone Finnish soldier camped in a forest with a rifle and canned food, killing over 700 Soviets in under 100 days, surviving counter sniping efforts, artillery strikes, and an exploding bullet to the face.
5VYKp TIL that the jacket that Jackie Kennedy (John F. Kennedy's wife) wore on the day of JFK's assassination cannot be displayed in public until the year 2103.
XbXR TIL the first role Michael Cera auditioned for was the role of Cole in the Sixth Sense.
Lkybm TIL a lab in Massachusetts pays people $40 for their poop. That poop is used for fecal transplants when a patient has chronic “C. diff” infections.