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TIL Florida attempted to build an artifical reef out of old tires which unintentionally caused a massive ecological disaster

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b9Nl4 TIL about Henry Dunant, a man who was so appalled and disgusted by the injury and death during the battle of Solferino, Dunant was compelled to create a neutral voluntary aid society that would tend to the wounded of both sides of every battle. This organisation later became known as the Red Cross.
m1lvO TIL Journey, one of the most-heard rock groups in history, started life as a Bay Area jazz fusion band
Zpb7Q TIL that when actor Bruce Dern was born in 1936, his grandfather George Dern was the sitting U.S. Secretary of War. George had also been the Governor of Utah before Bruce was born.
NX0w8 TIL of Paul Frampton, a Physicist at UNC Chapel Hill who was arrested for transporting cocaine after being catfished by a drug cartel pretending to be a young Czech bikini model.
GAVVj TIL about a Major League Baseball trading clause, a "player to be named later." Thanks to its ambiguous nature, four MLB players have actually been traded for themselves.