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TIL James Bond was originally half Scottish half Swiss. Also Flemming named him after an ornithologist as it was the "simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name".

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OG9Oa TIL the concorde used fuel pumps and multiple fuel tanks to move its fuel around mid-flight to trim its center-of-mass to help maintain stability as it passed supersonic speeds.
NXQk6 TIL woodpeckers have long tongues to protect their brains during high speed pecking.
KG8E TIL: NASA Deleted the first line of their mission statement in 2006……“to understand and protect our home planet”
OGakR TIL that the black hole TON 618 is a very bright object in space that is located near the border of two constellations. It has one of the most massive black holes ever found and is as bright as 140 trillion suns. It’s located very far away from Earth, about 18.2 billion light-years away
p5XZ TIL that in 2013, Google bought the GPS app “Waze” which resulted in each of the 100 employees receiving an average of $1.2 million.