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TIL the insulin pumps used by at least 350K Americans with diabetes (couldn't find the global number) were invented as a direct result of some of the earliest NASA technology from the Apollo program.

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njYY TIL Vultures and Condors are not actually closely related, but superficially similar only due to convergent evolution.
M7PRW TIL: A scientific study at Cambridge found that sheep were smart enough to recognize human faces from a photo. However, their performance dropped when the picture is tilted. To conduct the study, scientists have them treats to identify photographs. They used photos of Emma Watson.
yQxKw TIL there’s no scientific difference between pigeons and doves — the difference boils down to linguistic traditions.
ADDJg In 2011, my partner and I moved to New York. Straight from Austria without knowing what to expect.
MeKPb TIL Alexander Dumas (writer of the Three Muskateers)'s father was the first French black General and was the highest ranking black military officer in history for nearly 200 years.