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TIL Fruit bat mothers cry when you take their baby away

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9YXAB TIL that Russian Squatting is believed to originate from prison culture, where inmates would squat in order to avoid sitting on the cold ground.
Y79XP TIL that racially segregated school proms were still happening in the US as late as 2013
yQwoe TIL Loma Linda, California is the only American region identified as a Blue Zone among four others around the world. These areas have people who live the longest. The city has a high percentage of Seventh Day Adventists, who have what is considered one of the healthiest styles of living.
a8QKM TIL that in 1572, Tycho Brahe spotted a "new star" that briefly outshone Venus and was seen in daylight. This supernova was exploding around 9,000 light-years away, 300 million times brighter than the Sun, and visible naked-eye for 16 months. It shattered medieval ideas that the stars never change.
a7Ab TIL that in 2006 race driver Alex Roy drove NYC to LA in 31 hours and 4 minute. He planned the route to avoid traffic lights and and had friends in spotter planes watching for radar and speed traps.