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TIL killing a stork was punishable by death in Ancient Greek and they were honored by Muslims for flying to Mekka every year

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79jP TIL That during WW2 more people died manufacturing the German V2 rocket than were killed by the actual use of the weapon.
lowAN TIL flies find it hard to land on striped surfaces, & zebras suffer far less from flies, which carry deadly diseases. Zebra stripes are more pronounced in environments that favour horseflies
Oovy6 TIL: The one hundred folds in a chef’s hat represent one hundred ways to cook an egg
gMpGX TIL A 2015 study found no evidence that Kalash people of Pakistan are descent from soldiers of of Alexander the Great. The study, however, found that they shared a significant portion of genetic drift with MA-1, a 24,000-year-old Paleolithic Siberian hunter-gatherer fossil and the Yamnaya culture.
d8Ner TIL about Sgt. William Carney, the first African American to win the Medal of Honor