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TIL Fruit bat mothers cry when you take their baby away

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BgQd TIL that a Korean soldier during World War II was conscripted into the Japanese Imperial Army, captured and forced to fight for the Red Army, then captured again and forced to fight for the Wehrmacht. Making him a veteran of three armies.
KYW5Q TIL about the Demon Core incident which involved exteme radiation poisoning of a scientist working on a plutonium core in 1945 while working on The Manhattan Project.
ANAlw TIL that a prototype television was shown to the public in 1925 at Selfridge's department store in London.
jB1a TIL Bipolar disorder may have been a climatic adaptation for humans to survive short summers (manic episodes for high productivity) and long winters (depression to slow metabolism).
NoOP TIL the Federal Reserve Bank isn’t a part of the USA government, but is a private, for-profit corporation. With a monopoly on our money.