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TIL Google donated 5 million dollars to a program that uses drones to track poachers in Africa and Asia.

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NBAJ TIL, in 1946 NACA (now known as NASA) subjected a human test subject to winds of up to 457mph in the name of science.
YkGW TIL because of “Hollywood Accounting”, most movies (including blockbusters) have technically not turned a profit allowing Hollywood to not pay certain contributors.
JYr0V TIL that Christopher Collins, the voice of Starscream in the original series, also voiced Cobra Commander in the 1983 G.I. Joe cartoon. Making him the voice of two classic bad guys for an entire generation. He later went on to have a successful stand-up comedy career.
nGb9 TIL that one of the largest bats in the world, the golden-capped fruit bat, with a wingspan of 5.6 feet, does not posses echolocation. It instead relies on its keen senses of sight and smell to locate food, usually traveling more than 25 miles for it. The species is now facing extinction.
dvw9 TIL when Adolf Eichmann, aka “the architect of the Holocaust”, was on trial for his war crimes, he couldn’t afford the attorney he wanted. Not wanting any reason to question the legitimacy of the trial, the Israeli government paid for Eichmann to be represented by the lawyer of his choosing.