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TIL that Exxon’s punitive damages for the Exxon Valdex oil spill were reduced from $5 billion to $507.5 million

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Z81xp TIL the old man who died in the Mt St Helens eruption was once sunk by a U-boat, smuggled booze, threw his ex-wife into a lake during arguments, got park rangers drunk, impersonated game wardens, assaulted taxmen, hated hippies, chased off a Supreme Court Justice and died with his cats on a volcano
oO98 TIL since the 1990s, Carmel, Indiana has been replacing all signaled intersections with roundabouts. Benefits include gas savings of 24k gallons/year per roundabout; construction costs $125,000 less per intersection; injury accidents dropped by 80 percent and total accidents dropped by 40 percent.
X0Mwj TIL Mercury was still in use for hat making in the U.S. until the 1940's.
MljV TIL as of 2011, there are more barrels of bourbon aging in the state of Kentucky (4.7 million) than there are people who live there (4.3 million).
GvRj TIL the Grasshopper mouse is a carnivorous rodent that dines on worms, scorpions, snakes, and even other mice. It also “stalks its prey in the manner of a cat, sneaking up quietly, and defends its territory by ‘howling’ like a small wolf.”