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TIL a single bat can eat 2,000 mosquitoes in one night

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R7rRl TIL In 1880, Felix Adler, the philosopher who would later lead America’s first national campaign against child labor, proposed a 100% tax rate on income above the point “when a certain high and abundant sum has been reached, amply sufficient for all the comforts and true refinements of life”.
V5jG TIL, Bananas, Eggplants, Cucumbers, Tomatoes, and Grapes all fall into the botanical definition of a berry, while Strawberries and Raspberries technically do not.
1Mxd TIL that the Mushroom Houses in Super Mario Bros. 3 already know what item it will randomly give you at the start, therefore picking one box has no advantage over picking the others.
PYJQO TIL, the US Department of Transportation was created in 1966 after congressional hearings prompted by the book "Unsafe at Any Speed" by Ralph Nader.
VBBXD TIL that Princess Sophia Duleep Singh - Queen Victoria’s goddaughter was also a suffragette and therefore marked as a danger to the state.