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TIL Woodpecker damage is the biggest cause of telephone pole deterioration in the US.

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oY8E TIL a man lived in a French airport departure lounge for 17 years. He entered the airport and ‘lost’ his passport. As he had no passport he could not fly to his destination, the UK, but he had entered France legally so could not be expelled.
JAl1 TIL that the sun does not rotate as a solid body but that the equator rotates faster than the poles
pYwGb TIL about Walter Bonatti and Amir Mehdi, forced to spend a night on K2 without a tent because the first ascenders were afraid of being overshadowed. Bonatti upstaged them 4 years later summitting the even harder Gasherbrum IV; Mehdi was maimed by frostbite and never climbed again.
X06VR TIL starting in 1957 and through the next thirty years, Hanna-Barbera produced 249 individual cartoon series for television—totaling over 1,200 hours of original episodes.
bZDp TIL that the opposite of Anorexia is called Bigorexia, a disorder in which a person becomes obsessed with the idea that they are not muscular enough.