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TIL that roosters have build in ear protection to prevent them from going deaf from their own crowing

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KYW9a TIL the US flag we know today was created by a 17-year-old high school student, Bob Heft, from Ohio. In 1958, he designed a 50-star flag for a history project, earning a 'B' from his teacher. Then, Heft sent his design to the congessman Moeller that submitted it for a national redesign competition
JYxE8 TIL about “formaldehyde hunger” a well-known phenomenon in anatomy labs where med students get hungry while dissecting cadavers, allegedly due to formaldehyde being an appetite stimulant.
9YPpQ TIL: Lottie Williams is the only person to have been hit by re-entering space debris. She was walking through a park in Tulsa Oklahoma in Jan 1997 at 3:30 am and felt a tapping on her shoulder. It was a piece of the fuel tank of a Delta II rocket launched in 1996. She was unhurt.
kJVv1 TIL of Dr. Quiñones-Hinojosa, who went from a 19 year old migrant farm worker to the head of neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic.
WkMDY TIL Beyoncé would sing her albums while running to keep herself from getting winded while on stage