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TIL that Russia has “closed cities”, cities that have restrictions on visitors and are sometimes omitted from maps.

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nGb9 TIL that one of the largest bats in the world, the golden-capped fruit bat, with a wingspan of 5.6 feet, does not posses echolocation. It instead relies on its keen senses of sight and smell to locate food, usually traveling more than 25 miles for it. The species is now facing extinction.
oMbE TIL When Danny Glover first said the line, “I’m getting too old for this shit”, was back in 1987. He was 40 at the time.
BnWK TIL Blue food coloring has been shown to improve recovery from spinal cord injury when injected into the spine of rats.
xnbD TIL that Ouija boards work because of the Ideomotor effect, which is when someone moves themselves or an object without consciously knowing it.
ew8g TIL Earth’s rotation is slowing at a rate of approximately 17 milliseconds a century, and the length of a day for the dinosaurs was closer to 22 hours.