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TIL bartenders in Utah must prepare drinks behind a curtain called a “Zion Curtain” to combat excessive drinking

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njYY TIL Vultures and Condors are not actually closely related, but superficially similar only due to convergent evolution.
vLyK TIL we SURF the internet because of an image on a mouse pad. Jean Armour Polly wrote an article about the internet in ‘92 and was looking for a metaphor to describe how much fun and, at the same time, challenging it was to use the internet when she looked at her mouse pad showing a surfer on a wave.
xZp7 TIL in 2002 Iraq submitted a full 11,800 page report to the UN security council stating they had no WMDs, 8000 pages of which were secretly removed by US officials - the fact the report was incomplete was later used to justify the invasion of Iraq
rNBpd TIL the Bourbon dynasty that ruled France from 1589-1792 only had five kings over that duration.
wZr6 TIL Germans first female stunt pilot, Beate Uhse, tested world’s first jet-powered aircraft, escaped embattled Berlin in an abandoned aircraft together with her baby son and later started a company which today is the most successful in the German sex industry.