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TIL Bats talk about sex, food, and sleep.

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rRBao TIL Queen Elizabeth II was tricked into conducting a 17-minute telephone conversation with a Canadian radio DJ/impressionist who she believed to be the then Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chretien.
DQ0QY TIL In 2005, former Mexican President Vicente Fox said that Mexicans do jobs "that not even blacks want to do."
0w44j TIL In 1723 the death rate in London outstripped the birth rate and it remained higher for the next decade. Gin was to blame. Women addicted to Gin neglected their infants or quietened them with Gin.The term 'Mothers Ruin' survives to this day
l71a1 TIL on December 18th 1944 the US, with approval from Chiang Kai-shek, firebombed the city of Wuhan. The city burned for 3 days and 40,000 civilians were killed.
epNdE TIL The Bridge of Sighs (Ponte dei Sospiri) is one of the most famous symbols of Venice. Known today as the bridge of love, it was originally the bridge that prisoners crossed before being locked up in the Venetian prisons and from which, sighing, they could see the sunlight for the last time.