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TIL that "Windfucker" Used to be a Common Term for Kestrels (Small Falcons)

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D1ALj TIL that the hottest thing in the known universe is actually on Earth: the Large Hadron Collider can reach temperatures of 4 trillion Kelvin.
p89J4 TIL that the word quarantine comes from an Italian variant of ‘quaranta giorni’, meaning forty days, which was the period that all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague epidemic. They would fly this flag known as “Yellow Jack”.
MKQK TIL William the Conqueror’s funeral had to be rushed because of the foul smell of his bowels, which had burst when his too-large body was forced into his too-small tomb.
oRVyr TIL the raising of the American Flag on Iwo Jima was not a planned thing, and was also makeshift. They used a drain pipe that the Japanese used to catch rain water in trenches. This was also the first time an American Flag was raised on Japanese soil in WW2.
NNyM TIL H. Jon Benjamin released a jazz album called “Well, I Should Have…*” where he plays piano even though he doesn’t know how to.