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QN4ek TIL Until 1921 the Colorado River did not flow through the State of Colorado. It took an act of Congress to “move” the river into the state by renaming the Grand River and adding it to the Colorado River.
9OL6 TIL Humans almost became extinct in 70,000 BC after a supervolcano erupted and sent 650 miles of earth into the air, dropping the population to as low as 40 breeding couples.
rpx TIL Hugo Weaving who is in Matrix, Captain America, Lord of the Rings, V for Vendetta, basically every movie in the last 10 years, is also voices in Transformers, Happy Feet, Babe, and many video games. My gosh what hasn’t this man done and why isn’t he in the public eye more?
mxv7y TIL that during 1929-1932 Herbert Hoover deported over 1 million Mexican Americans because he believed them to be a cause of the Great Depression. An estimated 60% of those deported were actually U.S citizens.
woAw6 TIL of Vanessa Lawrence, a woman who was on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center (North Tower) as Flight 11 crashed into it, and survived with only a cut on her foot