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TIL the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania allows vertical oriented license plates for motorcycles, with numbers being read top-down rather than left-right

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WkYAd TIL that bats are not actually blind, but only use echolocation at night because it’s too dark to see. In fact, some bigger bats can see three times better than humans.
Y7mbd TIL Lake Baikal is the deepest (1642 metres / 5387 ft), the oldest (25–30 million years) and the largest lake by volume (23,615.39 km3 / 5,670 cu mi). It holds 22–23% of the world's fresh surface water
XEb66 TIL that the New York Times has made some truly terrible predictions over the years, from Hitler being “not genuine” about anti-semitism, to approximating in 1903 that it would take between 1 - 10 million years before humans would create airplanes.
ANLlx TIL that Dutch movie director Theo van Gogh’s last movie was about the assassination of a famous Dutch politician. He would eventually be assassinated himself.
neOdY TIL that an 8-year-old boy earned an estimated $26 million, over a 12-month period, from reviewing toys on YouTube.