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TIL Airport runway numbers actually indicate direction on a compass

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Wk8V4 TIL the incisors of Beavers are orange because they contain iron. That iron strengths the teeth and better able to cut through wood.
9YpxM TIL that toward the end of his career, acclaimed film director Sam Peckinpah, whose work includes The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country, and Straw Dogs, was so desperate for money as a result of his drug habit that he agreed to direct a movie based on the 1975 trucker novelty song "Convoy."
7xJM TIL During the first Gulf War the United States used bulldozers in an assault on entrenched Iraqi soldiers, burying between 80-250 people alive.
wLQoo TIL when Robert Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court, his rental history was leaked to the press. Bork himself had stated that Americans only had privacy rights as afforded them by direct legislation. The incident led to the enactment of the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act.
gra0L TIL the German Band Rammstein, has a box of CD that includes six dildos molded from each of the member's penises, handcuffs and lube. And I think that's another way to 'feel' their music.