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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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WkWGB TIL aid expert David Rieff argues that Live Aid donations helped fund a brutal resettlement programme that may have killed up to 100,000. Ethiopia remains one of Africa's poorest countries, and the whole of sub-Saharan Africa is worse off today than it was after Live Aid.
xKAB TIL That on one of Richard Branson’s last days at school, his headmaster, told him he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire.
1JZO TIl Dave Thomas (creator of Wendy’s) once worked for Colonel Sanders (creator of KFC) and gave him the advice to: create signature KFc bucket, reduce number of items in menu, focus on a signature dish and have Colonel Sanders appear in adverts
vkP4 TIL at least six Americans have been accidentally shot by dogs in the past five years, including by a dog named “Trigger”.
4Xw1N TIL Water is transparent to the human eye because of evolution. As Brian Skinner wrote: “Water is essentially opaque to all light except a narrow band of wavelengths that happen to correspond to the ones used by our eyes"