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TIL that the moon has moonquakes that are caused by gravitational pull from both the Earth and the Sun.

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VM5GQ TIL Frogs are becoming extinct.
ANbBx TIL what an 'Autopen' is and does. Until recent news events I had never heard of the word, let alone knew what it did or was.
b6jxj TIL in 1974 the British Army occupied Heathrow Airport without the knowledge of the Prime Minister Harold Wilson. The Army claimed it was anti-terror training but many believed it was part of a secret plot named 'Clockwork Orange'.
4k6Qa TIL, to study honesty, researchers called people at random and asked them to flip a coin, promising them €10 if they flipped tails. Fewer than half the subjects reported flipping tails, suggesting that almost no one lied.
b9mm0 Today I learned, after airspace was closed after the attacks of 9/11, 38 planes were diverted to a large dormant airport in Newfoundland Canada and the residents of Gander in Newfoundland welcomed in nearly 7,000 people into their homes and schools to stay while they where stranded for 6 days.