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TIL attacking a parachuter bailing from a distressed aircraft is a war crime

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9YmZB TIL that the very first Nobel Prize in Physics went to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays.
KOj64 TIL the origin of someone 'grassing' on someone comes from 'snake in the grass' as snakes are perceived as deceitful.
VMjBD TIL that Henry Ford had initially lead the movement of shorter working weeks from the entrepreneurial side of things. He (counterintuitively at the time) showed that shorter working hours led to higher productivity.
mx04p TIL that street dogs in several cities around the world have learned to efficiently nagivate human traffic, using crosswalks, following street lights, and even using public transport
J1gVm TIL that the Goseck Circle, a neolithic structure in Germany has entrances that align with the sunrise and sunset on both the winter and summer solstice. It was built around 4,900 BC making it nearly 7,000 old. This makes it older than Newgrange in Ireland and Stonehenge in England.