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TIL tree rings can reveal the dates of historical hurricanes

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4x9w TIL a Black Robin named Old Blue has become the mother of her entire species when she was the last fertile female in a group of 5 Robins. There are now 250 Black Robins on the Chatham Islands, and have raised their status from Critically Endangered to Endangered.
p8xA4 TIL a German company developed a pane glass for windows that replicates the way birds see spiders' webs so they will avoid flying into them, thus greatly reducing the high avian death rate caused by collision with building windows
8OX TIL that the game Oblivion has over a thousand characters, but only 13 voice actors.
Y7nRZ TIL: While in office, President Jimmy Carter had to physically defend himself from a rabbit.
MeZo8 TIL that the Colombian town of López de Micay is the wettest place in the world, with an average of 315 rainy days a year (the least rainy month is February, with 23 rainy days), and an average of 16000 mm of rainfall annually