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TIL that during WWII the US experimented with using a bomb filled with live bats that had incendiary devices attached to them in an attempt to set enemy cities on fire

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VBlnD TIL about The Sweatbox, a documentary about the making of The Emperor’s New Groove. Produced by Sting’s wife, it was never released by Disney due to the unprecedented access to their creative process, which was uncharacteristically rushed and improvised for this project.
BgB5D TIL that in Italy until 1981, if you caught your daughter or sister having extra-marital sex and killed them, the sentence was just 3-7 years of prison.
Bp6e TIL the direwolf actually existed, but went extinct 10,000 years ago.
OopdY TIL in 2012 wanting a dad was the tenth highest requested Christmas gift by children in the UK.
v1lLB TIL John Mercer Langston became the first African American lawyer in the United States when he passed the bar in 1854. He’s also the great-uncle of famed Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes.