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TIL Alan Greenspan admitted he was wrong about unregulated financial markets

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j6g6Q TIL about the 1947 Texas City Disaster: A ship carrying ammonium nitrate, among other cargo, exploded. The resulting detonation was felt in Louisiana, recorded by a seismograph in Denver, CO, and caused a 15-foot tidal wave. The blast and devastation has been likened to a small-scale Hiroshima.
Br1Wd TIL the man who is credited with launching America’s fitness revolution and popularizing jogging’s health benefits died of a heart attack while jogging.
wb17 TIL The Yellowstone National Park Bison Herd is the only population of American bison in the United States to have lived continuously in the wild from prehistoric times
P11bJ TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte sniffed over seven pounds of snuff a month.
yVJwX TIL about 32% of all traffic crash fatalities in the US involve drunk drivers (with BACs of .08 or higher).