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TIL: Bats can eat up to 1,200 mosquitoes in an hour and often consume their body weight in insects every night

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mxQxo TIL that 9/11 is the anniversary of the 1973 coup d'état in Chile led by General Pinochet, who executed thousands and interned and tortured tens of thousands for 17 years. While the U.S. may not have directly backed the coup, it appeared to condone it and worked with Pinochet afterwards.
kgem TIL Alamo Drafthouse once used an angry voicemail from a kicked-out texter as marketing material, promoting their serious moviegoing image
gM5BW TIL that square academic caps are called mortarboards, because it looks similar to the mortarboard used by brickmasons to hold mortar
g468 TIL Netflix’s origin story “Reed Hasting came up with the idea for Netflix when he was hit with a $40 late fee on the movie Apollo 13” is BS and just a marketing tool.
WkLn4 TIL: UPS uses route optimization software to save nearly $100,000,000 a year in fuel costs, mostly by eliminating left turns whenever possible.