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TIL a large portion of mercury in fish is from coal-burning power plants

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ZpZAo TIL that in 1945, a bulldozer in Liverpool uncovered a narrow metal cylinder containing the skeleton of a man. Diaries and other personal effects on the remains strongly suggest that the man died in 1885, but the exact circumstances of how he ended up in the cylinder remain unknown
1em7 TIL of the Emeryville Shellmound, an Ohlone Indian burial site and village occupied from at least 2800 years ago to 400 years ago, which now is contaminated with early industrial waste and paved over with a shopping mall and an Ikea.
D1QJp TIL an elite Zimbabwean brigade trained by North Korea and answerable only to Robert Mugabe killed around 20,000 civilians, while quelling an uprising.
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