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TIL Bats talk about sex, food, and sleep.

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v1j8r TIL Female Greenland sharks reach sexual maturity at age 150.
EgYWo TIL Pigeons are able to take off vertically and accelerate to 100 kph in two seconds
J1WnB TIL Rwanda has the highest female parliamentary representation —standing at 64%—in the world.
o0rA TIL that the Pope can appoint secret cardinals, and even the selected individual may not know he has cardinal status. The name can be made public at any time, but if the pope dies before revealing the name of a secret cardinal, the individual will no longer be a cardinal.
VMeYD TIL about Colorado City, Arizona, founded in 1913 by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The area has the world's highest incidence of fumarase deficiency, an extremely rare genetic condition attributed to the prevalence of cousin marriage.