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WPMY TIL that bats are responsible for pollinating agave plants for making tequila
VBVap TIL that just a year after the failed invasion by the Spanish Armada, the English launch their own English Armada against Spain, which also failed.
xVMlb TIL When Monty Python and the Holy Grail screened at the Cannes Film Festival, firefighters came in and made everyone in the cinema go outside as there was a bomb scare. As the projector stopped the audience roared with laughter, thinking it all part of this movie.
yVow8 TIL: That after watching males succeed at a series of puzzling tasks, female birds traded their simple-minded beaus for more cognitively competent partners.
OGyZL TIL that about 100,000 people died each year in India due to the collapse of vulture populations. Vultures were crucial to the ecosystem & their near extinction due to accidental poisoning extended the presence of animal carcasses in the local environment, increasing rabies & reducing water quality.