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TIL the albatross almost never flaps its wings while flying across the ocean. It uses "dynamic soaring" and "slope soaring" to carve through the air, gaining velocity from wind gradients. It can cover almost 1,000km (620 miles) every day, all without a single wing-flap

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DQ0vP TIL that when Charles Guiteau bought the gun he would use to assassinate President Garfield, he chose one with a more expensive ivory handle, thinking it would look better in a museum. Though the gun was given to the Smithsonian, it has since been lost.
GgbJ TIL in 1989, a 16-yo girl was held down by her Mother while her Father repeatedly stabbed her with a 7in boning knife. Her immigrant parents did not approve of her getting a job and dating a black boy. Her entire murder was caught on audio tape by the FBI who suspected the Father of terrorist ties.
R7RLj TIL The voice of phone numbers, voicemail, etc. is not a computer but the recorded voice of an actual lady named Joan Kenley
ng5G TIL Napoleon Bonaparte was 5'7" which was an average male height in his lifetime. His supposed “shortness” was British propaganda that is still generally believed to this day.
Me0Qb TIL that during the Great Depression, companies would print colorful patterns onto flour sacks so that women can make dresses out of them