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TIL "footquakes" are created by thousands of stomping people and picked up by seismometers

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roLM TIL that Archaeologists in 2011 discovered skeletal remains of Roman couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.
vP64R TIL of Smoky, the tiny four-pound Terrier dog who served and assisted the US in WW2 after being found abandoned in a foxhole in New Guinea , and who later became histories first therapy dog.
Zppa TIL: Hollow point bullets are not allowed in war, yet many police forces around the globe utilize them. Sweden is one of the countries which do…
PYAQw TIL about The Man in the Moone, a 1638 novel that is considered by some to be one of the first works of science fiction. In it, a Spaniard ends up on the moon after fleeing Spain and harnessing some wild swans who fly him up to it. He then meets the “Lunars”-a people who inhabit the moon.
wLQM TIL there is an log that has been floating in Crater Lake, Oregon for over 100 years