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TIL Vampire finches drink the blood of other birds

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0dA1N TIL during WWII, German pilot Walter Nowotny managed to shoot down ten planes in one day twice and five planes in one day 17 times.
VmJB TIL that in Judaism, finding someone a job that enables self-sufficiency is considered the highest form of charity.
gok4 TIL dust / dirt devils are called “djin” meaning “genie” or “devil” in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, and Jordan. This is where the mythical genie came from and why genies are typically depicted without legs.
N0VJ TIL that while working on an early show for Cartoon Network, Archer creator Adam Reed and animator Matt Thompson were generally “heavily intoxicated” at work, once lighting a set on fire “because they thought it would look cool.”
Dymr TIL - Nature is so good at evolving critters that aren’t crabs into crab-like things there’s a term for it: Carcinisation