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TIL Fracking caused a >10000% increase in Oklahoma earthquakes
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TIL Braille was based on a tactile military code called night writing, developed in response to Napoleon’s demand for a means for soldiers to communicate silently at night and without a light source. It proved to be too difficult for soldiers to recognize by touch, and was rejected by the military
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TIL Bees use complicated dance motion to tell other bees where (location, distance & orientation) to find resources
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TIL a good portion of the worlds web traffic encryption is controlled by lava lamps.
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TIL that fungi are the only organism known to cause mass extinction– and that they’ve already begun to eradicate frogs, fishes, bees, and most ominously, bats– a mammal. Valley Fever, now spreading unchecked throughout the American southwest, is a fungal infection….
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TIL Mel Brooks didn't tell Frankie Laine that "Blazing Saddles" was a Comedy which is why the song in the opening is sung so earnestly