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TIL Fracking caused a >10000% increase in Oklahoma earthquakes

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NjMM TIL that Hummer drivers were statistically the worst drivers on the road, averaging 5x more traffic violations than any other vehicle.
7kor TIL that an artificial intelligence system named Watson started swearing during a game of Jeopardy because it had learned vocabulary from the Urban Dictionary.
EAoP TIL cows with personal names like Betsy give 5% more milk than cows with no name or impersonal names like “cow 12345”
8aZKb TIL that at one point the Chicago River was so dirty from the city’s waste that it made the water from Lake Michigan undrinkable. To remedy this Chicago reversed the direction of its river away from the lake and toward the Mississippi River
rNnv0 TIL that the crew of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood rarely talked to Fred off set and "mercilessly made fun of him behind his back". Some of the crew would also go into the studio before shows when Fred was rehearsing with the puppets, in order to ask his puppets for advice, which Fred gave them.