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TIL Fracking caused a >10000% increase in Oklahoma earthquakes

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oBP97 TIL that dogs instinctively like squeaky toys because it mimics the sound of a terrified small animal being mauled and killed.
PY7QL TIL of John William Godward, an English painter who committed suicide at the age of 61 and left a note stating: "the world is not big enough for [both] myself and a Picasso”. Godward was a neo-classic painter; his style of painting had declined with the rise of modern art.
OGG1 TIL the main culprit for toothlessness in rural Appalachia is “Mountain Dew Mouth” not inbreeding or poor dental hygiene as once suspected.
9Xb6 TIL that because Japanese sentences end in auxiliary verbs, which are limited compared to English which ends in verbs and nouns, Japanese rappers had to be very creative to make verses rhyme
XEalR TIL: Rabbits, and other animals such as deer, have big white tails to confuse predators. A sharp turn will hide the "bullseye", confusing the pursuer.