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TIL Fruit bat mothers cry when you take their baby away

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N7V88 TIL NASA hires a chief sniffer to inspect the smell of every item before it enters space. The lack of ventilation means astronauts are stuck with the smells that are onboard with them.
exlJ TIL that the Doritos Loco Tacos are so popular that they caused the fast-food giant Taco Bell to add 15,000 jobs to the economy.
rRaOd TIL the popularity of cats as pets was largely influenced by one man in Edwardian England, and he was clinically insane.
rNRBM TIL when one adventurer drove a Jeep Wrangler to the world record altitude of 6,646 m, he left a sign saying "Jeep Parking Only: All others don't make it up here anyway.". The next record breakers, who had a Suzuki Samurai and climbed up to 6,688 m on the same volcano, removed that sign.
b9JWj TIL A needlegun is a firearm that fires small, sometimes fin-stabilized, metal darts or flechettes. Theoretically, the advantages of a needlegun over conventional projectile firearms are in its compact size, high rate of fire, and extreme muzzle velocity.