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TIL 'The Lost Generation' is a sad poem about society that ends with "all this will come true unless we choose to reverse it." If you read it backwards, each line has an opposite meaning, and it becomes happy.

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a8nm0 TIL. About the bearded vulture that subsists almost exclusively on bone. Approximately 70 to 90 percent of their diet is bone and they swallow bones as large as a lams femur whole.
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kOv5g TIL about the worst space related disaster in history. In 1994 China launched an untested rocket which immediately crashed into a nearby village, destroying it--killing hundreds. Officially only 6 died.