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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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ANJg7 TIL Mitch and Dallas Seavey, father and son dog mushers, are respectively the oldest and youngest winners of the Iditarod dogsled race. From 2012 to 2017, together they won six straight races.
xVYAg Today I learned that Tom Petty did not usually allow his music to be played on television, but he let The Simpsons use his song "The Waiting" in the episode "The Cartridge Family" because he was a fan of the show.
omdL TIL That the reason penguins waddle is because it is the most efficient way to move so they burn less fat.
VBnEm TIL about "Edison's Conquest of Mars" - an 1898 novel where Thomas Edison kicked alien ass in an unauthorized sequel to "The War of the Worlds." Among its MANY sci-fi inventions: First use of spacesuits, alien abductions, space wars, asteroid mining, and aliens building the Pyramids.
9J4X TIL New York launched an “America Works” style workfare program in 1995 known as the Work Experience Program (WEP). The result was that thousands of students were forced out of school, and thousands of union workers were replaced by WEP workers doing the same jobs for a fraction of the pay.