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TIL When Einstein and his wife Mileva Maric divorced, his son Hans Albert had a grudge against his father and when he said he wanted to be an engineer at 15 which made Einstein furious

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OowAX TIL: Dodgers Stadium was built on land forcibly taken from Mexican-American families
y648 TIL that due to waste-water injections from fracking, Oklahoma has gone from an average of about 3 earthquakes a year in the 1970’s to having roughly 900 earthquakes in 2015.
R7A18 TIL an abstract from a paper about butt reflexology (pressure points on the butt that can be used for therapeutic effects) that was written to show the dangers of having low standards in science, was accepted by the Jerusalem International Conference on Integrative Medicine.
ANNad TIL Ripley's Reeboks in, "Aliens," are nicknamed, "Alien Stompers."
NPYQ TIL that Target (yes, that Target) runs a state of the art crime lab, one of only twelve accredited private labs in the world, on its corporate campus in Minnesota. It often provides outside assistance to law enforcement at no charge and has been involved in a number of high profile cases.