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TIL Fruit bat mothers cry when you take their baby away

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jDMp TIL the Quetzalcoatlus pterodactyl had a wingspan of about 35 feet (10.6 meters), or about the wingspan of a F-16 fighter.
gMkp8 TIL that the Life expectancy number we know for the middelages includes the infant mortality, so 13th-century English nobles had 30 year life expectancy at birth, but when they reached the age of 21, they would normaly have a expectancy of 64.
d8wrE TIL that pepperoni isn't Italian... it's Italian-American. In fact, in Italy "peperoni" means bell peppers.
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