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TIL the Israeli Galil rifle was designed with a bottle opener by the front handguard because it was common for soldiers to damage magazines using them as bottle openers.

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v1Z47 TIL that Mozart had an extreme dislike for the soprano Adriana Ferrarese del Bene. She had a strange tendency to bob her head to low and high notes, and knowing this, Mozart chose to fill her showpiece with constant harmonic leaps. He took great pleasure watching her bob her head "like a chicken".
VjwB TIL Hawaii has only one native land mammal and it’s a bat. The rest are invasive.
rR8a4 TIL about the Libet experiment, a controversial and groundbreaking study on free will that demonstrated that there was unconscious brain activity before the conscious decision to perform an act
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v1WXK Flying a helicopter on Mars is so damn hard but NASA made it possible. For the first flight, the helicopter took off, climbed to about 10 feet (3 meters) above the ground, hovered in the air briefly, completed a turn, and then landed. It was a major milestone: the very first powered flight in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars, and, in fact, the first such flight in any world beyond Earth. Being able to fly a helicopter or drone on Mars is very important as they can cover 24 kilometers in an hour. By the way, Curiosity took nine years to travel less than 25 kilometers.