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TIL that bats are not blind at all and in fact have eyesight keener than that of most humans

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EWWx TIL in 1993 the Japanese religious cult Aum Shinrikyo released aerosolized Anthrax in a city near Tokyo over the course of 2 days. It should’ve killed thousands, however, they used a strain of Anthrax used for cattle vaccinations and inadvertently could’ve immunized everyone instead.
QJa6a TIL about Skateistan, an organization in Afghanistan dedicated to young people's education and skating. 50 percent of the children skating are girls because Afghanistan culture views it as a toy rather than a sport.
Pvdg TIL a Russian billionaire named Dmitry Itskov is working on a project known as the 2045 initiative with the end goal of it being to create a complete working model of a persons brain and putting in a robotic body with the hopes of completing it by 2045.
M7wNV TIL that Americans work more hours a year than the Japanese
XrRE TIL There is a theory that Homo erectus could have never evolved without cooking. I.e. that cooking is what made us human.