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TIL Bats represent 20% of all mammal species

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XEeO8 TIL that cats "train" their owners by vocalizing in a frequency that is pleasant to owners in a manner similar to babies
ZElG TIL: 51% of American households pay no income tax
grM0b TIL about the Battle of Dupplin Moor, where an English army defeated a Scottish army at least 10 times larger. Many of the Scots were compressed into a valley and suffocated, unable to fight or move.
b9084 TIL about the Nirvana Fallacy. Under this fallacy, the choice is not between real world solutions; it is, rather, a choice between one realistic achievable possibility and another unrealistic solution that could in some way be "better".
d007 TIL Joan of Arc was granted a retrial by the church and declared innocent in 1456. Unfortunately, that was 25 years after she was burned at the stake.