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TIL Bald Eagles can swim and have a butterfly like stroke

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nWkxb TIL that Pilates is named after a person, Joe Pilates
NBxP TIL WD-40 was originally designed to protect the exterior of Atlas Missiles from water and corrosion. It worked so well that employees started to sneak it home to use on other things.
PDGg TIL a style of pizza exists in America in which the toppings, including sauce and cheese, are put on the dough after it comes out of the oven.
1jp4 TIL that the founder & CEO of Little Caesar’s Pizza payed Rosa Park’s rent so that she could live in a better part of Detroit until her death.
yEVw TIL of Green Run - a secret Air Force experiment that released Hanford’s largest single dose of radioactive iodine-131. Scientists let 7,000-12,000 curies into the air, traveling as far as 200 miles. For scale, Three Mile Island released an estimated 15-24 curies, Chernobyl 35-49 million curies