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TIL that common kestrel bird used to be called the "windfucker".

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8jYP TIL Isaac Asimov refused the invitation to visit friend and famed A.I. pioneer Marvin Minsky’s lab at MIT in the 1960s because he was “Writing about really intelligent robots of the future and was sure that if he came and saw the clumsy ones that we were making it would spoil his imagination.”
Mxjm TIL that the Big Bang was first theorized by a Catholic priest
rNJlM TIL Mia Khalifa was raised Maronite Catholic
mdJy TIL being gay in India is illegal, and has been illegal since 1861.
8e7WK TIL that the 188 tallest mountains on earth are in Asia. The 189th tallest, Aconcagua, is in Argentina.