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TIL Louisiana loses a football field of land every hour to the ocean

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gr9Q7 TIL about the Hoover Dam Tragedy. The project's first recorded fatality was surveyor J.G. Tierney, who drowned on December 20, 1922, while searching for an ideal dam site. Thirteen years to the day, on December 20, 1935, the last man to die during construction was Tierney's son, Patrick W. Tierney.
l4GN TIL in 1939 German health establishments were told to survey their patients for certain conditions. Believing it a prelude to a labor draft many overstated their patient’s disabilities hoping to protect them. It was really part of Aktion T4, a eugenics-based murder scheme with a 5-figure body count.
y46w Today I learned that, according to the Beer Price Index, the cheapest city in the world for beer is Krakow, Poland.
GAoGj TIL about exotic atoms. These are semu-stable elements, not on the periodic table, made from other fundamental particles. They can sometimes even bond with regular atoms.
yMmv TIL Eton College - one of the most expensive schools in Britain - was originally founded to provide free education to poor boys