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TIL About a 15,600-year old human footprint discovered in southern Chile that is believed to be the oldest ever found in the Americas

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P1nVO TIL you can have a negative magnitude earthquake. Magnitude calcs are based on logarithmic scale so a ten-fold drop in amplitude decreases the magnitude by 1. If an amplitude of 20 mm as measured on seismic signal corresponds to a magnitude 2 earthquake then 1000 times less (0.02 mm) is mag -1.
O9j4 TIL That in the game Myth II: Soulblighter, due to a bug in the installer, if the game wasn’t installed into the default directory and instead into a different one, when attempting to uninstall it the uninstaller would delete the computer’s entire hard drive.
W7ydN TIL that the black mamba is the most feared snake in Africa because of its size, aggression, venom toxicity and speed of onset of symptoms following envenomation.
b9mOp TIL that the first recorded use of Forensic Entomology was by Chinese detective in 1200s AD. In a murder investigation in a village, detective Song Ci put every scythe in the village for inspection and found the culprit when flies- attracted to trace amounts of blood- kept landing on his scythe.
xjJB TIL that due to a mishap by the distributor, George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead had no copyright protection and instantly fell into the public domain