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TIL Owls have long legs

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9PN6 TIL that space travel gives astronauts a feeling of being completely engulfed by a profound sense of universal connectedness
AN9L4 TIL Hawaiian slack-key guitar tunings were once guarded fiercely and passed down as family secrets.
l7nJ5 TIL That in 1856, the revolutionary French magician Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin was sent on a mission by Napoleon III to pacify the tribes of French Algeria by showing them that 'French Magic' was stronger than that of their local religious leaders
A5bB TIL that Gregor Mendel started off breeding mice, but had to switch to plants because monks shouldn’t live with sexually active beings
rnW0 TIL, in 1986, a sysadmin looking into a $0.75 accounting error uncovered a KGB hacker that was stealing nuclear secrets