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TIL Aftershocks from the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 are still occurring, with the most recent being a magnitude 7.0 in 2021.

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JjL8 TIL Operation Northwood - called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., planes would be hijacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse for war.
5Y4kr TIL Killer bees or Africanized bees were created by humans cross breeding bees in the search for more efficient honey production
QJwpp TIL Astronomers discovered a solid planetary body that may actually be the core of a giant gas planet that lost its atmosphere. This body is about 3.5 times the radius of Earth but has a 39 times greater mass than Earth.
dle7 TIL the man who first artificially cloned a fish was later forced to give up his research and become a janitor by the Chinese government during the Cultural Revolution.
yA1M TIL After Hurricane Katrina, the emir of Qatar donated $100 million to New Orleans, intended to help rebuild housing, hospitals and schools.