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TIL: Hawk moths can jam a bat’s echolocation by rubbing their genitals together to create ultrasound disruption, throwing the bat off.

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4Xo65 TIL that Tug of War was an Olympic sport. It was dropped after the Antwerp games in 1920 after a number of controversies.
5nw8 TIL that a group of Nuns is called a Superfluity, Cobblers a Drunkenship, and (wild) Cats a Destruction. Here is a huge list of Collective Nouns.
NpP8 TIL that a woman tried to sue the makers of Cap'n Crunch because Crunchberries are not real fruit.
xVOOD TIL that during WWI, the Germans tried to convince the Allied soldiers at Dunkirk to surrender using propaganda leaflets dropped from the air. The soldiers used these leaflets as toilet paper.
6EWdl TIL during a flight in 1987 a flight attendant shouted "We have a problem!" towards the captain, who then asked "What's the problem?". The attendant was then shot and killed... and a man walked into the cockpit and said "I'm the problem!". He then proceeded to crash the plane, killing 43 people.