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TIL painting zebra stripe patterns on cattle reduces the number of biting flies by up to 50%

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XZAP TIL Alaskan Killer Whales sometimes eat deer and moose swimming between islands on the northwest coast of Alaska
Oo7kY TIL about "Sundown Towns" where specific ordinances and posted signs in counties, cities, and suburbs restricted black people out at night. This is why many neighborhoods are still very racially segregated today.
5V5D8 TIL that During the First Gulf War, an American Patriot missile battery used double values in its calculations. The inaccuracy caused it to fail to track and intercept an incoming Iraqi Scud missile, and 28 soldiers were killed
NvoN TIL the “#” of C# was based on a small grid of 4 “+” signs, implying it is an increment of C++
WkOMA TIL that John Henry Patterson, the engineer famous for killing the Tsavo lions was, while Protestant, the leader of the first all Jewish military unit in WWI and is a celebrated person in Israel today