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TIL that Indo-Europeans, the ancestors of almost all languages and cultures in Europe, Persia and India, had presences as far as near Peking, China.

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p8d8A TIL that Turkey Vultures have been & sometimes are still used to detect natural gas leaks from pipelines; the odor that gas companies add to gas (so we can detect it since it's odorless) is the same as rotting flesh, which leads the vultures to congregate in the sky in the area of the leak.
oRxxE TIL an Irish battalion fought in the Mexican-American war on the Mexican side.
dDXMK TIL: Prairie dogs build their burrows with a flat orifice at one end and a mounded one at the other. During a breeze, the different surface geometries create a pressure differential via the Bernoulli effect, forcing air to flow from the flat end to the mounded end, ventilating the burrow.
wokoY TIL that the Longest Conveyor Belt in the World can be seen from space
yQO98 TIL the original founders of Tesla were Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. They created the company's first car, the Roadster, and were eventually ousted by the board of directors.