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TIL squirrels are more intelligent then I thought

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PYk4G TIL that Throughout the 1950s to the 1970s, the CIA operated a passenger airline company called Air America, which was responsible for allowing the US military access to places in Southeast Asia the Geneva Convention had banned the military from.
Q48e TIL that reloading in Golden Eye for N64 was originally going to be accomplished by removing and reinserting the rumble pack like an ammunition magazine.
AN0va TIL: Charles Schultz never liked the name Peanuts for his comic strip
P1A6E TIL about the Braunschweig meteorite, a 1.3kg meteorite that hit a concrete path in Germany, leaving a 3cm deep/7cm wide crater, presumably the smallest impact crater we know of.
OG9GR TIL during the period aptly named as "the great dying" 57% of biological families on earth, uncluding 81% of marine life and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate went extinct. The likely cause is volcanic activity turned the oceans toxic and released toxic gas like sulfuric dioxide into the air