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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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a80eJ TIL that the origin of the word “twerk” is over 200 years old.
78r5Z TIL that the sun actually puts off white light and it only looks yellow to us because of our atmosphere scattering blue light away (which is why the sky looks blue)
kOwo4 TIL In 1971, the crew of Apollo 15 carried about 400 unauthorized postal covers to the Moon in order to be sold. Because the astronauts were paid $7000 each even though they returned the money, they were accused of profiting from their mission and never allowed to fly in space again.
moY TIL Louis CK dropped his management agency because they asked Joe Rogan to apologize to Carlos Mencia for outing him as a joke theif.
jNkLM TIL that in the film Blue Lagoon, Brooke Shields had to walk in shallow trenches because she is almost 178 cm (5'10) while Christopher Atkins is just 167 cm (around 5'6). He later described the experience as "like having the Statue of Liberty standing beside me".