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TIL beer companies have started moving to curved glasses as people drink 60% quicker from them

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0Yx1 TIL mules (donkey/horse hybrids) are sterile. 2 instances of mules foaling have been confirmed by DNA testing which showed the mule passed on ONLY her horse genes. This means she’ll foal a mule if a donkey breeds her or a horse if a stallion breeds her, and should be genetically impossible.
5Y7o9 TIL The word “sinister” is a word English took from Latin meaning “left handed”
dDaV8 TIL the first scientific specimen of the world's largest butterfly, the Queen Alexandra's birdwing, was collected "with the aid of a small shotgun"
wLWAM TIL how maglev trains work from a Professor in 1975. He shows how to overcome the flipping magnets problem and how to move the train along with magnetism.
WjQX TIL when the space station Skylab fell to Earth in 1979, it landed in Esperance, Western Australia. The Shire of Esperance fined NASA $400 for littering, which went unpaid for 30 years until a radio host raised the money and paid it on behalf of NASA.