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TIL Bald Eagles are feeding in a suburban Seattle landfill and dropping their trash leftovers in nearby residents' yards. The official “bird management plan" sent drones to chase away birds but were ripped up in the sky by eagles. "Scarecrow" mannequins with safety vest and hard hat also failed.

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LQyZm TIL that a flight delay, weather, and foot perspiration prevented Richard Reid (the infamous Shoe Bomber) from successfully detonating his high-tops in flight.
l7XOA TIL It is possible to see two sections of sunspots through a magnification of 50x through a filtered telescope at the Sun. There is a darker, cooler central portion with a surrounding lighter ring and 150x shows tiny grains called granules
Rvx7 TIL a UK village redesigned traffic flow in its town center to eliminate all traffic signs and signals. Since the redesign, the accident rate dropped, economic activity increased, and one citizen noted, “I think we’re all being kinder to one another.”
OoQBL TIL: Joshua Bell, one of the top violinists in the world played during rush hour in a DC metro station on his 3.5 million dollar violin. He acted like a normal street performer, It was an experiment to see if normal people would notice his musical talent. They did not.
QJEQp TIL During a campaign to remove statues of Vladimir Lenin, Ukraine changed “Lenin Street” to “John Lennon Street”.