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TIL the Lammergeier, a large species of vulture, has a diet that is 70%-90% bones

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NZXE TIL that trains have conical wheels because there is no differential; when the train turns one wheel will travel a greater distance than the other
xXJB TIL that during the Nazi occupation of Greece, the mayor of the island of Zakynthos was ordered to make a list with the names of all Jews on the island. The list handed over to the Nazis contained two names: the mayor’s and the islands Bishop. All Zakynthos Jews survived the Holocaust.
77AO TIL A Mars mission would expose astronauts to radiation levels equivalent to receiving a whole-body CT scan every five or six days and increase their risk of cancer by 5.5%; NASA scientists consider this the “elephant in the room” with regard to any deep space missions
awrgN TIL Wernher von Braun, the German rocket scientist who developed Nazi superweapons during WWII, was one of many German scientists secretly brought to the US to help win the Space Race. He would go on to develop the Saturn V rocket, which carried Apollo 11 to the moon.
915G TIL the 7 words that follow ‘primary(1), secondary(2), tertiary(3),’ are 'quaternary(4),’ 'quinary(5),’ 'senary(6),’ 'septenary(7),’ 'octonary(8)’ 'nonary(9),’ and 'denary(10).’