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TIL Bats talk about sex, food, and sleep.

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XE7N6 TIL of James Lafayette, a former slave who acted as a double agent during the American Revolution. He was able to travel freely between American and British camps, and foiled Benedict Arnold’s plan to storm Yorktown. This led to the British surrender.
WMXY TIL zeppelins and blimps are different things, zeppelins have a rigid metal skeleton, whereas blimps do not.
lDNa TIL deleted scenes from 1997’s “Event Horizon” were considered lost forever until some reels were found in a salt mine in Transylvania in bad condition.
7nb TIL: The fiddle song featured in Ken Burns’ The Civil War was not a Civil War song at all, but “a Scottish lament written by a Jewish guy in the Bronx” in the eighties.
ne50G TIL There is an urban legend that the city of Berwick was at war with Russia from 1853 till the 1960's, when the mayor signed a treaty. The myth spawns from Berwick's absence from the Treaty of Paris that ended the Crimean War, in reality Berwick was not included in the original declaration of war.