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TIL About "Intraplate Earthquakes" which refers to earthquakes that occur in places away from typical earthquake areas. This means that earthquakes could happen anywhere and puts cities and towns thought to be "earthquake safe zones" at a very high risk due to the unpreparedness for such events

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Zjm4 TIL that the 2006 film The Ghost and The Darkness, about man-eating lions, was based on the real Tsavo Maneaters - two lions that killed 135 people in 1898.
1a7lP TIL after South Park premiered in 1997, the number of households with Comedy Central jumped from 9.1 million, to a staggering 50 million by 1998.
KYMx6 TIL that in 2012, German animal rights groups estimated that up to 500,000 animals were dying each year to "excessive sex practices." Later that year, Germany would criminalize bestiality.
V7p0 TIL Edward Norton’s first film role ever earned him an Oscar nomination. He is also a Yale graduate that never went to an acting school.
wLw9Y TIL of Detroit’s Eight-mile wall built in 1941 to separate separate black & white communities. It still stands to this day.