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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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a45o TIL there is a legend that flexible glass was invented around 20AD, when a craftsman presented Tiberius Caesar a bowl of this glass, whereupon he threw it to the ground and it did not shatter. Fearing the implications of such a material, the Caesar had the man beheaded, the formula now lost forever.
Enlp TIL a man with a fake eye was convicted and executed by the Puritans for the crime of bestiality after spotting a piglet that looked a bit like him.
VBWl0 TIL in the 1870s William Shanks spent 15 years of his life calculating pi to 707 places by hand. However, the last few years were wasted as he made a mistake after the 527th digit.
oB8ZL TIL Terry Davis an american programmer created his own operating system “TempleOS” while diagnosed with schizophrenia and claimed to be the smartest programmer ever to live
RDYl TIL When Ronald Reagan became president of the United States he asked his Chief of Staff to see “The War Room”. No one had informed him that it was only a movie set that was created fictionally for the black comedy “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”.