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TIL The airport code for San Carlos Airport, the nearest airport to Oracle Headquarters, has the code “SQL”

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7ro1O TIL Scientists exploring the Abanda caves in Gabon discovered a unique group of crocodiles. They are almost blind due to living in total darkness, permanently soaked in a toxic mix of bat feces and water which turned their skin orange. They adapted to a diet of bats crickets
OGEXR TIL about "Cemetery Island" (old Newburg Cemetery) in Kentucky Lake, a strip of land that's only visible when the water is low. It has a grave marker from 1907 that's regularly toppled by boats when the water is high in the summer and has to be propped back up in the winter.
6jLW TIL the 1977 NYC Blackout was partially responsible for the birth of Hip-Hop, as it provided cover for mass looting of DJ equipment in the Bronx.
grZwW TIL Although pandas rarely attack humans, attacks can be severe. There have been three separate panda attacks on humans at the zoo in Beijing. The humans were critically injured and had their body parts almost bitten off.
wrB6 TIL that IRA snipers killed about 200 British soldiers/policemen from 1971 to 1997, and even shot down army helicopters. A “Sniper at Work” sign warned soldiers of the danger.