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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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9wQm6 TIL When Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Oscar in 1940, she had to make her way to the stage from a segregated table at the back of the room.
jNMra TIL that giant pandas were removed from the Endangered Species list
Yy5G TIL: The first new antibiotic (Teixobactin) in 30 years has been discovered. This discovery could pave the way for a new generation of antibiotics because of the way it was discovered using an electronic chip to grow the microbes from the soil and then isolating their antibiotic chemical compounds.
GgL5 TIL Street Fighter II in 1993 eclipsed sales of Call of Duty in 2011 (adjusted for inflation)
W4gL TIL In 1952, Kent cigarettes introduced an asbestos filter to protect its smokers