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TIL: Peregrine Falcons are one of the most common birds of prey, living in every continent except Antarctica.

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LQpDV TIL that Deborah Harkness, author of A Discovery of Witches (a novel about a scholar who finds a lost book of magic at Oxford), actually found Aldaraia, a long lost 16th century treatise on magic in Oxford’s library.
1vbO TIL that only around 5% of Buddha’s teachings have been translated to modern languages; a global non-profit group named 84,000 aims to translate all of Buddha’s teachings to modern languages in order to combat the possible loss of this cultural heritage
kJYv5 TIL B-17 crews in WWII were volunteers, they could quit flying at any time. They had some of the highest casualty rates of any service in the war yet thousands continued to fly.
8MX8 TIL Louis Braille, the inventor of the reading and writing system for the blind Braille perfected it when he was just 15
Lkep TIL the Soviet Tsar Bomba was so powerful it shattered windows 900 km away