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TIL Fruit bat mothers cry when you take their baby away

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awneA TIL sci-fi author Isaac Asimov refused the invitation to friend and famed A.I. pioneer Marvin Minsky’s lab at MIT in the 60s because he was “Writing about really intelligent robots of the future and was sure that if he came and saw the clumsy ones that we were making it would spoil his imagination.”
ANXax TIL that because baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson was illiterate, and his wife usually signed his name, his actual autographs are very valuable. A signed photo of himself was the highest price ever paid for a sports photo, $1.47 million.
BD7L TIL that pointing became considered rude because originally it was thought that you were casting a spell on the other person.
W7daX TIL printers embed tracking codes as hidden yellow dots on pages, revealing who printed what and when
woye7 TIL that Canada bas a strategic reserve of maple syrup stored in a 270,000 sq ft warehouse, containing over 55 million pounds of syrup, to help stabilize global syrup prices