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TIL 1 billion birds die a year from running into window glass

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8e6pa TIL: A dude bought flight insurance in 1955 at an airport where his mother was literally about to take off. Apparently, they used to sell it AT the airport and from a vending machine no less. He had planted explosives in her suitcase and killed all 44 people on board to collect the insurance.
lovWa TIL the Pentagon was built with twice as many bathrooms as necessary because of racial segregation
N71ne TIL about Cognitive Bias, which is is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. People create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behavior in the world.
VDap TIL the official name for Greece is the ‘Hellenic Republic’
GOR5 TIL the Pleiades (a cluster of stars) were used as a method for testing eyesight in ancient times, a soldier who could see at least 7 was given the job of scouts or archers.