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Today I Learned that the world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat

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BgeNb TIL For decades sideshow performers showcased a real deceased man in their show "The Outlaw Who Would Never Be Captured Alive". The man in question was killed in a shootout in 1911. He was displayed in this show until 1976 when he was rediscovered, and finally laid to rest in 1977.
GAl54 TIL: In 2002, Kenya formally donated 14 cows to the US as a way to show compassion to them after the 9/11 tragedy.
awJRL TIL that the drink mix Tang wasn't created by or for NASA. It was introduced in 1957 but sold poorly until the U.S. space agency used it for John Glenn's 1962 Mercury mission. Tang was then marketed as what the astronauts drank, but Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin later said, "Tang sucks."
D1gjJ TIL a man living near The Gap cliffs in Sydney, Australia helped save over 160 people trying to commit suicide by just talking with them and inviting them into his home for tea over a 45 year time period.
lXoG TIL that the President of the IHOP corporation started off as a waitress in one of the restaurants.