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TIL San Francisco experienced a major earthquake in 1906 that caused the San Andreas Fault to slip. It was followed by massive fire that led to 4 square miles being leveled, 3,000 deaths and 250,000 left homeless. The sound was described as a noise "like the roar of 10,000 lions"

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RnLa TIL the Boy Scouts of America helped child molesters cover their tracks and kept records in documents known internally as “The Perversion Files”.
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woexY TIL Scientists genetically modified goats to spin spider silk from their udders. US Professor Randy Lewis transplanted a gene into the goats from a spider that allows the goats to produce milk containing an extra protein. This is then extracted from the goat milk and spun into spider silk thread.
kOG6m TIL Before Chesley Sullenberger and The Miracle on the Hudson Capt. Carlos Dardano landed a 737 on a narrow levee in New Orleans after the engines flamed out in a rainstorm in 1988. Capt. Dardano also only had one eye from when his plane was shot at during the civil war in El Salvador.
Vee4 TIL faking mental illness is actually considered a sign of psychopathy.