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TIL that in 1944, Germany was spending 75% of it's GDP on military expenditure.

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e0Lnb TIL Owls have asymmetrical ear openings with one ear slightly higher than the other. Due to this, owls will hear sounds at two slightly different times. This adaptation, along side their farsightedness and densely packed retinal rods, aid in locating prey at night and low light situationsđŸ¦‰
gMMKA TIL In the films "Rocky," (1976) and "Rocky Balboa,"(2006) Rocky's pet turtles were played by the same two turtles.
xVNLb TIL Boeing 737 Max airplanes Flight control run on, Collins Aerospace FCC-730 series computers, first built in 1996. Each computer features a pair of single-core, 16-bit processors that run independently of each other.
gMrJb TIL in the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 there were too many bodies to bury so the corpses were dumped into the Gulf of Mexico. Shortly thereafter the bodies began to wash back onshore and survivors constructed funeral pyres to burn the corpses. The fires burned day and night for weeks.
9YGV7 TIL SEGA arguably spearheaded internet intergration in home consoles; the SEGA Saturn featured both online multiplayer as well as a fully fledged internet browser back in 1995