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TIL Hundreds of skeletons are scattered around a site high in the Himalayas, Roopkund lake, in India

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8a9m8 TIL the US National Guard will air drop hay bales to stranded livestock that the farmers can’t get to.
Wogd TIL a study by Princeton sociologists on discrimination in university admissions concluded that on SATs, blacks had an advantage of +230 points, Hispanics +185, and athletes +200. Asians had a -50 handicap. To have the same odds of admission as a black student who scored 1110, Asians need a 1550.
DQ5dv TIL with a "Constant acceleration" space ship, at 1G acceleration you could travel the diameter of the milkey way (105,000 Light years) in a short 12 years.
J1w7V TIL that the actor Lorne Greene, later known for his roles on 'Bonanza' and 'Battlestar Galactica', first achieved fame as a Radio Newscaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation during the early days of WWII. He became known as 'The Voice of Doom" because of the grim news he often reported.
ne5n7 TIL that in the California Condor Recovery Plan, researchers and breeders removed condor eggs and used condor puppets to raise and feed the chicks from those eggs. Parent condors would then lay more eggs to replace the taken eggs, thus increasing their reproductive rate.