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TIL that hummingbirds are one of the few bird species that “pees”

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8ak8L TIL Modern body armor was created by a pizza delivery guy who was wounded in the head and leg after a pizza delivery turned into a shootout. Richard Davis, a former US Marine, developed the bulletproof vest using Kevlar. During testing, he shot himself in the chest 190 times.
ZpeLp TIL that Hyochang Park in South Korea was originally used as a royal cemetery. Under Japanese rule, the cemetery was turned into a golf course, leaving the graves directly in the line of play. The park now contains a museum dedicated to Kim Koo, a leader in the independence movement against Japan.
9nJp TIL famed volcanologist Maurice Krafft said “I have seen so much eruptions in 23 years that even if I die tomorrow, I don’t care”, The very next day him and his wife were killed by a pryoclastic flow
4Y85 TIL the international data code for Switzerland is CH, which stands for Confoederatio Helvetica, the Latin name for the country. Switzerland chose this code to avoid favouring any of their four official languages.
6EG68 TIL of the Aeroflot Flight 6502 incident of 1986 in which a Soviet pilot made a bet with his co-pilot that he could land the aeroplane blind. He crashed the plane, killing 70 out of 94 passengers and crew.