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TIL of the Marikina Valley fault system. A fault system that passes through the densely populated Metro Manila.

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8eA14 TIL More than 100 people die annually from puffer fish poisoning.
bxx0 TIL of Draco, the Ancient Greek legislator who wrote the first code of law in Athens. Over time his laws were seen as increasingly harsh and punitive, which is why we say a law is “draconian” when the punishment is too extreme for the crime.
kOyGW TIL: In 1989, the football team of Mississippi segregationist private school Heritage Academy added the first black player in their football conference of “seg” academies. Two schools forfeited rather than play the school with a black reserve running back.
nWrEG TIL A Japanese YouTuber sparked outrage from viewers in 2021 after he apparently cooked and ate a piglet that he had raised on camera for 100 days. This despite the fact that the channel's name is called “Eating Pig After 100 Days“ in Japanese.
kolE TIL That Marie Curie, the Polish physicist and chemist, not only coined the term, “radioactivity”, she was the first woman to win a Nobel prize, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences.