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TIL an autistic single dad of an autistic son quit his job to run a Minecraft server only autistic people could join, so they have a community to socially interact with others without being bullied.

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AD09w TIL Not all bats live in caves. These thumb-sized Honduran White Bats sleep in leaves in the rainforest. They are polygamous. Each leaf-tent houses a single male and his harem of up to six females.
7KQP TIL: That 70% of Iran’s science and engineering students are women and that its scientific progress is reported to be the fastest in the world.
1a51V TIL Ernest Thompson Seton, one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America, was presented with an invoice for all the expenses connected with his childhood, by his father, including the fee charged by the doctor who delivered him. He paid the bill, but never spoke to his father again.
69Rkl TIL during World War II, the British government commissioned a project called "Operation Vegetarian," which planned to drop linseed cakes infected with anthrax over Germany to contaminate livestock and cause a food shortage. The plan was never executed, test sites remained contaminated for decades.
XY0r TIL Every pawn on a chess board was given the name of a commoner’s occupation like Gambler, Innkeeper, etc.