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TIL that there’s an astrophysicist called Tony Stark

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QNyEM TIL Airport runway numbers aren't sequential, they are based off compass bearings. Runway 9 would be 90 degrees, runway 27 is 270 degrees...
9YlGD TIL When a flock of starlings are murmurating (flying in those shape-shifting patterns) Each individual birds' movements are copied by 7 of its closest neighbours, and each of those neighbours' movements affect 7 more and so on through the flock.
9oG TIL When Rod Serling was a child he was able to entertain himself so well that when his family was on a road trip they all kept quiet to see if he would notice. He didn’t and talked non-stop through the entire car ride.
grP88 TIL Finland used a lot of resources and logistics during WW II to bring the fallen to their home parishes for a proper funeral, instead of using mass graves in the battlefield.
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