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Til: there is a movement to restore much of Tesla’s work, including rebuilding Wardenclyffe Tower.

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XEpgk TIL: Birds have a poor sense of smell so handling a young bird does not cause its parents to abandon it. If you move it, make sure you leave it within hearing distance of where it was found.
yRyM TIL Sunburn is not caused by your skin cells being damaged by the Sun and dying. Rather it’s their DNA being damaged and the cells then killing themselves so they don’t turn into cancer
WOPY TIL The duffel bag gets its name from the town of Duffel, Belgium, where the thick cloth used to make the bag originated.
mxOpp TIL about Philip Gale, child prodigy that committed suicide at age 19, jumping from a classroom's window. Before jumping he wrote on the blackboard Newton's equation for how an object accelerates as it falls, along with a sketch of a stick figure tossing a chair. He signed it, "Phil was here"
W7R9d TIL of the Ngatik massacre, where almost the entire male population of an island was murdered for Tortoise shells and left a massive linguistic mark in the region.