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TIL that California’s drought might actually be a return to normal climate, with the past 100 years being abnormally wet.

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wkxM TIL in 2008 a California nuclear plant was taken offline due to “a rapid influx of jellyfish”
Z8DQa TIL during the Great Depression, the U.S. deported between 400,000 to 2,000,000 people of Mexican heritage. Approximately sixty percent of them were born in the U.S.
W7ox4 TIL the ancient Nazca got water in the middle of the desert through an engineered series of 46 aqueducts running 12 m underground. They were built around 200-500 AD, and 32 of them are still used by local farmers today
e1Z4 TIL The KKK tried to to set up a kerosene-soaked cross at Spring Hill College due to its supporting the civil rights movement. When the students were alerted they chased the Klansmen away with whatever items they could use as weapons like golf clubs, tennis rackets, bricks, and softball bats.
XEaj TIL that in the German version of Die Hard, all the terrorists are given English names.