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4XO1w TIL USB drives get lighter as you store more data
M7mab TIL Plato once offered a literal definition of humanity: he called a human “a featherless biped”. Cynic philosopher Diogenes took it literally – he plucked a chicken, strode into Plato’s lecture hall & announced, “Here is Plato’s man.” Plato had to add “with broad, flat nails” to save face.
yxDX TIL An Iranian F-4 Phantom tried to shoot down an U.S. surveillance drone in international airspace. An American F-22 Raptor flew under the F-4 undetected, checked out their weapons, pulled up on their left wing, switched to their radio frequency and said ‘you really ought to go home'”
Oo4P4 TIL of Hedviga Golik a Croatian woman who died in front of her television in her apartment in Zagreb in 1966 and was found 42 years later in 2008
e0gGD TIL the birthing position used on movies and TV shows is the most painful type for pretty much all women. It is not typically recommended anywhere in the world.