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TIL there is an "upside down" waterfall in Hawaii. For part of the year it flows straight up into the sky.

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d8ea9 TIL: The baby thief Georgia Tann was allowed to operate a black market adoption agency in the US for nearly 30 years. She stole nearly 5000 kids from poor families and adopted them out to rich families. This went on until her death in 1950.
5Ppk TIL that the Police in the United States have a lesser mortality rate per 100k than the following jobs: Fishermen, roofers, farmers, taxi drivers, cement manufacturers, logging workers & airline pilots.
M7O58 TIL the United States is the county with the most volcanoes.
4Xw96 TIL bootlegger Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton killed himself rather than report to federal prison after being convicted of moonshining offences. He prepared his grave footstone years in advance and had it by his front porch and kept his casket in his living room. The epitaph read, "Popcorn Said Fuck You."
vv5B TIL in an experiment every one of 54 undergraduates in wine making and tasting thought they were tasting a red wine while it was actually a dyed white wine. Furthermore when comparing identical wine of different prices experts raved about the expensive wine while panning the cheap wine