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TIL Bats represent 20% of all mammal species

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KOQLE TIL that US soldiers in Vietnam saw 6x more combat than US soldiers in previous wars, because helicopter deliveries drastically cut downtime spent waiting for supplies
B9lb TIL that two researchers, funded by the British government, developed a mathematical formula for the “perfect human voice.” The male voices that matched most closely were Alan Rickman and Jeremy Irons; the closest matching female voices were Judi Dench, Mariella Frostrup, and Honor Blackman.
6RP8 TIL that during WW2 two polish doctors saved the lives of 8,000 Jews by faking a typhus epidemic that stopped the Nazis entering their town.
nWWe9 TIL Singer and Entertainer Bing Crosby was a minority owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1946 until his death in 1977.
1abwP TIL of the 1940 Armistice Day Blizzard. Unseasonably warm temperatures of 65°F in mid-November were followed by one of the worst blizzards in Midwest history which created drifts more than 20 feet high. The blizzard ultimately killed more than 150 people and allegedly 1.5 million turkeys.