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TIL Pink Floyd’s hit album “The Wall” was influenced by a bunch of roudy concert goers who annoyed Rodger Waters so much that he decided to write an album about building a metaphorical wall.

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XE6Gr TIL a woodpecker's tongue is so long that it wraps around its skull to protect its brain from over 1000g of force when it's hammering away
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