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TIL beavers’ teeth are orange because they’re fortified with iron

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pbl8 TIL in 1999 Serbian forces shot down a US F-117 Nighthawk (first stealth bomber, worth around $111 million) by adapting what was considered “obsolete” Soviet long waveband radar positioned correctly. The radar detected the opened bomb bay doors.
l71mG TIL "DARVO" is a reaction pattern recognized by some researchers as common when abusers are held accountable for their behavior: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim & Offender. It was first theorized in 1997 by Jennifer Freyd who called it "frequently used and effective."
RekQ TIL that Ryan Gosling purchased a Moroccan restaurant in Beverly Hills on impulse, and spent a year doing the renovation work himself.
yQwKl TIL Upon the Debut of Apple Maps, in Sept 2012, Users reported numerous errors such as redirecting UK user's searches of London to its smaller namesake London, Ontario , mislabelling a small Irish park as an airport & completely wiping out certain cities
ONaX TIL handshakes were originally meant to confirm you had no weapons in your hands or up your sleeves (hence the shaking motion to jiggle them out)