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TIL that birds' navigational abilities may result from quantum mechanics. This theory suggests that the entanglement of 2 electrons on molecules in their eyes helps them detect Earth's magnetic field

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Eg5wX TIL of hitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot which successfully hitchhiked across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, but while attempting to hitchhike across the United States, it was stripped, dismembered, and decapitated in Philadelphia.
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GAJA7 TIL Liberace played a Batman villain, playing 2 roles no less, in a 2-parter. They were the series' highest rated episodes ever.
JEOm TIL Iran’s Air Force Flies American-Made F-14 Tomcats
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