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TIL the Largest Source of Power Outages in the US is not Lightening or Drunk Drivers, but Squirrels.

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woAZ7 Today I learned that heavenly bamboo is used as an ornamental plant by cultivators, but it is an incredibly invasive species and very poisonous to birds & mammals.
40gw TIL that Douglas Bader was a pilot who could sustain more G-Forces in combat because he had no legs.
wLbp7 TIL North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Il generally avoided foreign travel but he made three trips to China in just over a year in his final years. South Korean President Lee Myung cheered Kim's visits to China as a positive force for change
Z8n1G TIL: Anarcho-primitivism is a political ideology that advocates a return to non-"civilized" ways of life through deindustrialization, abolition of the division of labor or specialization and abandonment of large-scale organization technologies. Or...devolution.
e0o4b TIL that Florida had brought in 2 Irula tribesmen from India to catch the invasive Burmese pythons. When 1000 hunters were able to manage catching just 106 snakes, the duo caught 27 snakes in just 4 weeks, including a 16 ft long female.