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4XA5a TIL that in 1950, to test the potential impact of a biological attack, the US Navy released a supposedly harmless bacteria over San Francisco, hospitalizing several people and killing one.
D1JPr TIL that Vostok Station in Antarctica, with an average temperature of -55.2°, and where the coldest-ever natural temperature was recorded, is one of Earth's sunniest places, with more annual hours of sunshine than the sunniest places in South Africa - despite having no sunshine from May to August
D1v4Y TIL Divers are teaching other fish to eat the invasive lionfish.
DdaV TIL Over the past decade, the number of African American men killed on the streets of Oakland nearly matched the number who graduated from its high schools ready to attend a state university.
LQ6MV TIL that Mary, Queen of Scots, smuggled her dog to her execution under her skirts. The dog tried to stay near her corpse and afterward, died when it refused to eat.