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TIL that Slash, guitarist of Guns N' Roses, helped fund the dinosaur exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (see "project funding")

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N7y86 TIL that a European fungus, accidentally spread to North America in 2006, has caused Bat populations across the US and Canada to plummet by over 90%. Formerly very common bat species now face extinction, having already almost entirely disappeared over the Northeastern US and Eastern Canada
e0gN6 TIL Susan Travers, WW2 and Indochina War veteran, is the only woman to have been formally enrolled in the French Foreign Legion.
grEXA TIL 1 in 5 CEOs have psychopathic tendencies
LkZMv TIL the idea of Catholic Monks/Nuns taking a "vow of silence" never existed. The concept is a misunderstanding of "Monastic Silence" which established rules for time and place when speaking in a monastery. There was never a rule which required perpetual silence.
ZpeYQ TIL that the famous song "Happy Birthday to You" was originally written as "Good Morning to All" in the late 1800s by Patty Hill and her sister Mildred. The melody was later adapted, and it became the go-to song for birthday celebration worldwide, despite being the most sung song in English Language