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TIL that outside of the West Coast, the US government has identified Tennessee and Missouri as the most at risk for a catastrophic earthquake. A 2009 study predicted 7.2 million people displaced, 715k buildings damaged and 86k casualties.

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rlXW TIL in 1984 five Argentinians crossed the Atlantic. The boat was a raft of 13.6 meters long by 5.8 meters wide, built of logs, rudderless and with only a candle. The aim was to prove that 3500 years before Christopher Columbus, African sailors may have accidentally reached the shores of America.
Ve0D TIL The film “What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?” was given an X rating in the UK for the initial release because its plot was so controversial and unheard of.
9wlQm TIL when President Charles De Gaulle visited Harold McMillan at his home in Birch Grove in 1961, the French Secret Service put a special fridge in the coach house filled with De Gaulle's blood in case of an assassination attempt. A Daily Mail reporter was also bitten on his behind by a police dog.
7M5O TIL After working with Tom Cruise on the movie Collateral, Jada Pinkett, together with her husband Will Smith, donated $20.000 to a scientology homeschooling program and funded a scientology-affiliated private elementary school.
R7R9w Let’s say you’re doing 100 mph in a car and suddenly a downed tree, stopped the car, or person appears in the road up ahead and you need to slam on the brakes. How much more dangerous is that situation than when you’re doing 70 mph? Your intuition might tell you that 100 mph is only 30% more than 70 mph. But as this video shows, the important factor in stopping a car (or what happens to the car when it collides with something else) does not speed but energy, which increases at the square of speed. In other words, going from 70 mph to 100 mph more than doubles your energy…and going from 55 to 100 more than triples it.