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PYMRL TIL Bats Are Very Social Creatures, Sharing Food With Close Friends And Remembering All "Scrooges" In Their Surroundings
0dQ6p TIL that Susan Finnegan was the first female head of the arachnids section at the Natural History Museum, London, but had to resign from her job to marry.
ZpwgD TIL there is an Iraqi bellydance called Kawliya which involves flipping the hair and rolling the head in a manner reminiscent of a heavy metal fan at a concert. Kawliya used to be considered a disgraceful dance but is now very popular with Iraqi women who like to dance this way at social events...
W7O9o TIL an 22-year-old Indian engineering student from Kerala, India has created a machine which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to write his homework in his own handwriting
5Vd1D TIL that Rube Goldberg never actually built a Rube Goldberg Machine, they were bi-weekly comic strips. It was other people who built his designs and other such machines.