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TIL that the falcon punch is a real thing. Due to their rather small beaks and talons, falcons don’t have the luxury of swooping down and snatching up lunch. So instead they dive bomb at speeds over 200 MPH, make a fist with their talons and just punch the shit out of whatever their hunting.

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Z8wGa TIL that Hitler got the idea to sterilize the physically and mentally handicap from the success of the United States program in the 1930's, the US stopped due to not wanting to be associated with that image.
XEAEj TIL that we originally discovered how digestion work because a man named Alexis St. Martin developed a fistula in his stomach after a gunshot wound. The physician placed bits of food on a spoon and inserted them into the mans stomach through the fistula in order to observe the process of digestion.
vwmL TIL The United States of America has nuked inside it’s own borders at least 988 times. That’s only slightly less than the number of nuclear weapon tests conduct by the rest of the world combined at ~1,011.
gMwdL TIL that after the Apollo 11 moonwalk, NASA was concerned about the volatility and possible fire or explosion of lunar dust after the LM was filled with oxygen. Armstrong and Aldwin spread out a sample in the LM before repressurizing and watched to see if it caught fire or smoldered. It did not.
er76 TIL after an Indian king was insulted for his ethnicity by an employee while visiting a Rolls-Royce showroom in London he ordered that 6 luxury cars be bought and sent back to India to be used as garbage collectors throughout the city, damaging Rolls-Royce’s reputation and profits.