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TIL that Los Angeles is actually an active oil pumping field that at its height provided 25% of all the oil in the world. It's still pumping today, they just hide the many derricks in boxes and pretend they aren't really there.

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5V8b8 TIL that Albert Einstein's son Eduard studied medicine to become a psychiatrist, but was diagnosed with schizophrenia by the age of 21. His mother cared for him until she died in 1948. From then on Eduard lived most of the time at a psychiatric clinic in Zurich, where he died at 55 of a stroke.
A4n7 TIL: The sound made by the Krakatoa volcanic eruption in 1883 was so loud it ruptured eardrums of people 40 miles away, traveled around the world four times, and was clearly heard 3,000 miles away.
BvJK TIL that 80% of the world’s painkillers are consumed in the US, and consumption has quadrupled since 1999
18wP TIL that 81% of suicide victims 24 or younger are male.
5YX1P TIL that when the former child actor who voiced Charlie Brown was sentenced for stalking his ex-girlfriend and threatening her plastic surgeon, the judge told him "don't be a blockhead"