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TIL in 1985 the USAF shot down a satellite with a missile launched from an F-15

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9YrxD TIL Ravens can solve puzzles that require a flexible planning ability previously documented only in people and great apes. They learned to pass up a small food reward in favor of a tool they used to get a much better reward and barter with bottle caps, concepts a toddler would struggle to understand
9Ye5Q TIL that while 4-8% of people have at least one food allergy, a large proportion of people in developed countries believe they have food allergies when they actually do not have them.
M0MK TIL the United States government fed radioactive oatmeal to mentally handicapped children to study the effects of radioactivity.
ONDL TIL that Japan didn’t sign the 1929 Geneva convention on treatment of POWs, and nearly half of all Americans captured by the Japanese in WW2 were killed in custody.
d8ggd TIL The man who organized the anti WWII intervention America First Committee died in 2014.