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TIL Fracking caused a >10000% increase in Oklahoma earthquakes

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GYw47 TIL That famous FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was a closeted homosexual and cross dresser. The mafia gathered evidence of this, and blackmailed him into never publicly acknowledging the mob's existence, let alone investigating them.
JWkB TIL in 1936, 30 Toronto men were arrested for removing the tops from their bathing suits and showing their nipples
R7ab8 TIL In 2001, a seven foot bull shark bit off a boy’s arm. His uncle not only saved the boy, but dived in after the shark, wrestled it to shore where the shark was shot, retrieved the boy’s arm and it was sewn back on in the hospital.
pp1N TIL Meerkats are the most murderous known mammal, with almost 20% of meerkats being killed by one of their own. The average among all mammals is just 0.3%.
w0N8 TIL the Nazi’s used special buses that had their exhaust fed into the passenger compartment where they transported mentally disabled people in order to kill them.