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TIL Oklahoma (not California, Japan, Chile, etc) Experiences More Earthquakes Than Anywhere Else in the World

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VoZG TIL A researcher at Cornell University has created a robot that “evolves”. Through a clever algorithm, it spends its days creating better versions of itself
ADmvl TIL camels first evolved in North America and camel fossile remains have been found in the arctic.
D186p Today I Learned that propane has no smell. That smell of rotting eggs associated with propane is actually ethanethiol, a “stench gas” used as an additive in odorless combustible gasses to help accidental ingesters to identify it as a danger.
WLoo TIL Blowing into your Nintendo cartridges didn’t actually help, it only damaged them
xVGa0 TIL that Domino's gave away almost 11,000 free pizzas by mistake because somebody stumbled upon a code for a promotion they scrapped