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

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lZrV TIL of Black Bart, the “gentleman robber” of the Wild West, who’d rob stagecoaches, leaving behind poems like: “I’ve labored long and hard for bread, For honor, and for riches, But on my corns too long you’ve tread, You fine-haired sons of bitches.”
w8w7 TIL heat is measurably more unpleasant than coldness
jN0rR TIL sailors at sea with the US Navy during the War of 1812 had rations of 4240 calories per day, about twice the recommended daily allowance for the modern American man.
VdWZ TIL America is under a perpetual State of Emergency; 30 of them, to be exact. With the oldest dating back to the late 70s.
epZWD TIL that Pantone’s infamous “ugliest color” was renamed from olive green in Australia after offense from actual olive growers