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TIL that moths vibrate their genitals to jam bat sonar

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8egBa TIL At dawn on Friday October 13, 1307, the soldiers of King Philip IV had all Templars found in France captured.
kO7yW TIL Prince Ali Ben Hussein of Jordan set out on horseback together with 14 Circassian riders in 1998 to Circassia (Russia). They followed the trail of the mass Circassian exodus in reverse. His goal was to make it possible for Circassians to return to their ancestral homeland.
pYaPG TIL that Sigourney Weaver only earned $35,000 for Alien (1979) but got $1,000,000 and a share of the profits for Aliens (1986)
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