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TIL that birds can 'see' magnetic fields

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D17kp TIL Walt Disney World near Orlando briefly had a real airport with a singing runway. Grooves in the tarmac were spaced so the lines played the opening notes of "When You Wish Upon a Star" when planes rolled over them. The airport closed in 1972.
vPYxK TIL that notorious mobster Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano is now a podcaster
E1wvV TIL about a YouTube microcommunity of people who have their own VHS video stores built in their basements. Some even have cash registers and candy/popcorn displays.
nepQW TIL Loki was actively pansexual and genderfluid in mythology Loki | Mythology, Powers, & Facts.
WkxLA TIL Mark Zuckerberg attempted to buy Snapchat for 3 billion dollars in November of 2013 but was rejected. Almost 3 years later, Instagram cloned Snapchat’s main features and launched ‘Instagram Stories’.