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TIL: that Jay-z, nickelback, and Bob Dylan all released albums on 9-11-2001.

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E1K7w TIL that there was a legal battle between World Wide Fund for Nature and World Wrestling Federation over the use of the acronym WWF.
WkK58 TIL: Charles Darwin terraformed Ascension Island in the Atlantic by bringing hundreds of non-native plants from all over the world. The mix of flora is not found anywhere else together naturally.
GYXA4 TIL Opossums are like tick vacuums, eating as many as 4,000 per week
v1JEx TIL that older models of the Toyota 4Runner had a "Party Mode" button that immediately increased the volume of the radio.
VMmpQ TIL in an effort to keep birds of prey away from airports, French scientists discovered that raptors were repelled by an LED screen featuring a "googly eyes" image that appears to enlarge. Screens at an airport with over 8,000 bird sightings successfully reduced raptor visits during a 5 week trial.