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TIL that just thinking about a location activates mental maps in the brain

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78GQb TIL that the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the continental US occurred in New Madrid, MO, in 1812. It was so violent that the shaking was felt in New York, made church bells ring in South Carolina, and made part of the Mississippi River run backwards.
J1Rvm TIL there were chips made with Olestra that caused many to run to the restroom
dDp9E TIL that polar bears are also ranged hunters and will throw rocks and chunks of ice at walruses to stun or even kill them outright
XEKer TIL when Radovan Karadžić went into hiding, he became Dr. Dabić. He lost 20 kilos. He grew a long white beard, changed his accent and was living in the open and working as a healer. He even went on TV shows without anyone knowing that he was the most wanted war criminal from the former Yugoslavia
awb5M TIL IBM designed a supercomputer in 2008 to run the entire internet -- a global-scale computer.