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TIL the West African Ebola outbreak is linked to people eating bats.

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vkwK TIL that the last US-company mass-producing audio cassettes, founded in 1969, had their best year in 2015, selling about 10 million tapes
WkPbL TIL that before he became a Stooge, Larry Fine was a professional boxer and an accomplished violinist.
9wnQD TIL that the largest city by area in the contiguous United States is Tribune, Kansas. Despite having only 772 people, it is technically larger by area than cites like NYC due to its county consolidation
aay9 TIL that the world’s first programmers were women, a fact that took 50 years to be recognised.
7EV7 TIL there is a ghost ship full of diseased and viscous rats sailing the earths oceans, it recently almost crashed into a beach near Plymouth but missed and continued to sail.