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TIL - Falcons are more closely related to parrots than hawks or eagles

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GA5Y7 TIL about Hans Spemann, a German embryologist who won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Medicine after he put his name on his student Hilde Mangold's dissertation. She discovered embryonic induction, one of the first steps toward cloning, but died in 1924.
GYxNJ TIL that the Soviets won the battle of Stalingrad by breaching Nazi flanks and attacking the Stalingrad from behind. The name of this operation? Operation Uranus.
GVkN TIL that Brad Pitt was banned from ever entering China because of his role in Seven Years in Tibet
JdKQ TIL that UPS drivers only turn right when possible. This move saved them 20.4 million miles in one year and reduced CO2 emissions by 20,000 tons.
d8Nw9 TIL that it is illegal for a person to defame, insult or threaten the royal family of Thailand, and if caught, can cost you 3 to 15 years PER COUNT of insult