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TIL workers at Gloucestershire Airport play Tina Turner songs at full volume to keep birds off of the runways.

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n5Ao TIL that at the 2006 Winter Olympics, a Norwegian coach handed a spare ski pole to a Canadian after she broke hers during a relay race. The Canadian skier went on to win a silver medal. Canadian citizens were so appreciative they collectively gave the coach more than 5 tons of Maple Syrup.
6mv8 TIL New Zealand will deny people residency visas if they have too high of a BMI and there has been cases of people rejected because of their weight.
N7vE8 TIL that ferns yeet their spores. They have a structure called an annulus that responds to humidity. When they dry out they curl backwards, creating tension, and then snap forwards, ejecting the spores in a yeet-like fashion.
0wdp5 TIL that Bumblebees were originally called Humblebees until about the mid 20th Century.
OxGa TIL the Richter scale is an exponential scale which uses powers of 10. Meaning an earthquake measuring 9 on the Richter scale 1,000 times stronger than one measuring 6.