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TIL Apache Helicopters can do inverted maneuvers. Thought it only happened in video games.

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owg8 TIL that Nikola Tesla used to feed pigeons, bringing injured ones into his hotel room to nurse back to health and one time spending over $2,000 to fix a pigeon’s broken wing and leg, including building a device that comfortably supported her, so her bones could heal.
7NPP TIL Prostitution exists among some penguins and chimpanzees. They prostitute themselves for things like stones or food.
Lkved TIL the 4 circles in the biohazard symbol represent the chain of infection.
9wkDB TIL Lou Pai was a senior executive at Enron who, after having an affair with a stripper, to satisfy his divorce settlement, cashed out $250 million of his Enron stock just before the company's stock price collapsed and it filed for bankruptcy protection.
OGLXg Today I learned that in 1962 a man bought a deserted island in the Seychelles and planted 16000 trees, reintroduced 120 giant turtles and hundreds of birds turning the island into a protected national park