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TIL that taking notes by hand, as opposed to typing on a laptop, has been found to enhance learning

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oRO8L TIL there was an effort during WWII to train pigeons to guide missiles by strapping them in a harness and using their pecks to navigate. The pigeons were largely successful during closed loop tests with fast response time and high accuracy, but the project never came to fruition due to budget cuts.
8eBMa TIL that Liechtenstein has virtually no debt with GDP to debt ratio being 0.5%.
VeNp TIL when you get a sunburn, it’s not your skin cells being damaged by the sun and dying, it’s your skin cells’ DNA being damaged by the sun and them killing themselves so they don’t turn into cancer.
GeAg TIL that scientists in Florida plan to release genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild. The males still mate with females, but the hatchlings die before adulthood due to the presence of the new genes.
9YpY6 TIL the verb 'to snipe' originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India where hunter skilled enough to kill a particularly elusive bird, the snipe, were called 'snipers'. This is also the origin of the term 'snipe hunt' to describe an impossible task.