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TIL Fruit bat mothers cry when you take their baby away

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VMDbQ TIL that the last American born into legal slavery died in 1972
R77V9 TIL "Kamikaze pilots only had enough fuel for one-way missions" is actually a myth.
gMdA9 TIL that the irregular shapes of the letters in the Comic Sans font type allows people suffering from dyslexia to read more easily. While many fonts use repeated shapes to create different letters, such as a ‘p’ rotated to made a ‘q,’ Comic Sans uses few repeated shapes, creating distinct letters.
RGba TIL that a chimpanzee has been observed wearing a piece of grass into her ear, with no apparent function. After other members of her group started imitating her, researchers realised to be in presence of the first fashion statement observed in other animals.
QNarX TIL Henry VIII had an illegitimate son, Henry FitzRoy. He was briefly a candidate for the English throne, and to prevent Henry VIII's marriage annulement and break from the church, the pope considered suggesting instead to allow FitzRoy to marry his own sister, Mary Tudor, and proclaimed heir