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TIL birds have accents based on where they live, just like humans.

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9odm TIL physicist Bernard Waldman witnessed the bombing of Hiroshima, as a camera operator on the observation aircraft. He was equipped with a special high-speed movie camera with six seconds of film to record the blast. Unfortunately, Waldman forgot to open the camera shutter, and no film was exposed.
9Yn7r TIL about Luna 15, the failed soviet lunar probe that launched three days before Apollo 11, while Neil Armstrong was taking the first steps on the moon, the soviets were trying to regain control of the probe were ultimately they failed causing luna 15 to promptly crash into a mountain
gvWL TIL That astronauts have a patch of velcro inside their helmet, so that they can scratch their nose.
Ood6R TIL the pyramids weren't built by slaves but paid workers, who often left graffiti on unexposed areas of the pyramids identifying their crews, like "The Drunkards of Menkaure"
8axKb TIL the tall cone-shaped “princess hat” is called a hennin. They originated with the warrior queens of Mongolia and became fashionable in Europe after Marco Polo brought one back from his travels.