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TIL that poultry legs are called drumsticks because they were given this nickname when ancient musical drumsticks looked like a turkey leg.

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wLbK6 TIL due to his fascination with James Bond novels CIA boss Allen Dulles made the CIA attempt to make some of the Bond gadgets in real life. While the poison-tipped shoes reportedly did work in real life, many other gadgets failed to do their job.
LjDP TIL Saturn’s moon Titan has such a dense atmosphere(1.5Atm) and such a low gravity (0.138G) that if you strapped wings to your hands you could easily fly.
p8rK8 TIL about "Brazilian Schindler"; Souza Dantas, an ambassador from Brazil in nazi-occupied France in 1940's, risked his life giving visas to hundreds of jews and others. Against the will of the Brazilian government at the time, he saved around 800 people from certain death.
lorRB TIL that Kevin Hines attempted suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate bridge and after hitting the water, he was kept afloat by a Sea Lion until the Coast Guard arrived.
WkKeA TIL MRI data was analyzed from participants consisting of more than 800 incarcerated men who committed homicide and those who committed other crimes, the 200 men who committed homicide showed reduced gray matter in brain regions responsible for behavioral control and social cognition.