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TIL that Humans Have Shifted Earth’s Axis by 1m by Pumping Lots of Groundwater

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6EVQm TIL: In 2015 a 16 year old boy in North Carolina was charged with possession of child pornography for having taken explicit pictures of himself.
pmL4 TIL it’s actually “Whet your appetite”, not ‘wet’. Whet means to sharpen, as as a whetstone sharpens a knife.
gWp9 TIL: There was a movement of people in the late 1800’s called the “anarchists”; that effectively changed American labor policy by fighting injustice with extreme violence, rather than sitting in front of Wall Street.
V7r4 TIL That in India there is a precariously balanced boulder on the edge of a slope named “Krishna’s Butter Ball”.
4kvgb TIL that, from 1951 until a major incident in 1957, Lake Karachay in the Ural was used by the Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant as a dumping ground for liquid radioactive waste and now contains 4.44 exabecquerels (EBq), causing a radiation level of 600 röntgens per hour