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TIL there's a man-made borehole that drains 100 million gallons of polluted coal mine runoff every day into the Lackawanna River and Chesapeake Bay.

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OAJL TIL The Border Collie is the world smartest dog with one individual reported to be able to respond to 1,022 individual words
ZpVNG TIL that sunlight on Pluto at mid-day would be equivalent to twilight on Earth despite being 40 times farther away from the Sun than Earth, bright enough to read a book.
evM4 TIL that in 1976 a Japanese ultranationalist porn actor died after flying a plane into the house of a yakuza don to punish him for accepting millions of dollars in bribes from Lockheed & betraying the samurai code
pbVp TIL that the civil rights song “Strange Fruit” made famous by Billie Holiday and Nina Simone was written by a white, Jewish, New York high school teacher who was a member of the Communist Party.
pYGEe TIL Marquette, Michigan had a prison hockey team in 1953 named The Marquette Pirates who played against the Detroit Red Wings and lost 0-18