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TIL because the Black Guillemot lives on cliffs, it lays pointed eggs so that instead of rolling off the cliffs they spin in tight circles

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9YQrB TIL despite a heart condition and arthritis that forced him to use a cane, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. led the assault on Utah Beach, becoming the only general to land with the first wave of D-Day. When his craft drifted a mile off target, he told his men, "We’ll start the war from right here!"
R55GQ TIL The Babcock father and son team constructed the first solar magnetograph, which allowed them to measure the general magnetic field of the sun. The son, Horace Babcock, was able to discover magnetic fields in more distant stars with his own invention
X0ZlP TIL that the reason we think of Neanderthals as hunched over and primitive is because one of the first skeletons we found was 40 years old and had arthritis
Bgbmb TIL that in 2001, a wedding hall in Israel collapsed due to the removal of load-bearing walls on the floor below several weeks prior, as well as excessive weight on the top floor. 23 people died and 380 others were injured.
x81w TIL that under Islamic Sharia law a raped woman’s testimony in court is worth half that of her rapist