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TIL about flood geology, the attempt to correlate real landscape features and the presence of coal or oil with the Biblical Great Flood

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aw60A TIL in 2014, a memorial to people killed by dogs, the majority of whom were pit bulls, was mobbed by pitbull owners who prevented people from viewing the memorial with their pitbulls
ZpJYB TIL: Pigeons learn via brute force same way as the modern ML does
neLAd TIL In 2005 Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili fired all of the traffic police in his country, cutting 25,000 to 30,000 police from the payroll to fight corruption. He also increased the minimum weekly salary from $30-$40 to around $400 for the new officers.
788wZ TIL that before the Hoover Dam was built, there was a town where Lake Mead now is called St. Thomas. The entire town was purchased by the federal government and abandoned. However, the water level of the lake has fallen so much that parts of the town can be seen and explored.
RLLj TIL police departments can and will refuse to hire someone because their IQ is too high.