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TIL that big trees so rarely grow wild in Bahrain that the one tree, the "Tree of Life", is a tourist attraction by itself, as hardly any rain falls in Bahrain.

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Vlnk TIL that a there has been a book written from the perspective of a successful sociopath/psychopath about the intricacies of the life of someone with this condition called “Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight”. The book, for obvious reasons, was written under a pseudonym.
8aKxG TIL that Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd, a Great Depression-era gangster and notorious bank robber, endeared himself to the public by destroying mortgage papers at the banks he robbed, freeing many from their debts.
Z8BdQ TIL that among the thousands of Little League championship players, only three have also played in the MLB World Series.
N86E TIL some moths make noises similar to bat echolocation, which scares female moths into sitting perfectly still, making them an easier target for mating.
NXQZb TIL: aside from being an actor and an activist, Marlon Brando was also an inventor with 4 patents to his name. One of them were pool shoes that that would increase friction as you walk on the bottom of the pool to give you a better workout, and another invention being a single-tuning conga drum.