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TIL Crystals in our ears regulate balance

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9Vbp TIL Crows hold ‘funerals’ for fellow crows. Often neighboring crows who didn’t know the now deceased crow or even see it die will attend these 'funerals’
5YynP TIL the data connection between the ISS and other modules is just plain old ethernet via the International Docking System Standard connector (page 73)
OOQ4 TIL Clair Cameron Patterson was counting lead isotopes in rocks to find the age of the earth, after finding the age of the earth he also found out there was unhealthy amounts of lead in the atmosphere caused by tetraethyl lead, Patterson campaigned to stop the use of tetraethyl lead and won in 1978.
0d6ZA TIL that red translucent glass is made with pure gold particles. The first red glass was the gold ruby glass and it was made in 1680 in Germany.
XEvRD TIL that in 2019, A&W became the first franchised restaurant chain to turn 100 years old