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TIL: In 2007 a meteorite impacted near the village Carancas (Peru) leaving a 14 m crater and knocked a guy from his bicycle. Later, villagers and livestock got ill from poisonous material vaporizing from its surface.

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WnYY TIL the US Navy has 19 aircraft carriers, compared to 12 for the rest of the world combined. The smallest US carrier is larger and more advanced than the next largest carrier from any other country.
oB5VA TIL An Arizona man, Paul Menchaca, was charged with multiple counts of sex abuse and fraudulent schemes after he allegedly faked having Down syndrome and hired female caregivers to bathe him and change his diapers. Using an online service, Menchaca posed as his mother to lure alleged victims.
9KLX TIL Hitler considered the Japanese “Honorary Aryans” because of their “racial integrity.”
dZOj TIL there is an island in Brazil which is quarantined due to a snake infestation
GA9E TIL of the Holodomor, the man made famine inflicted upon the Ukrainians by the Soviets in 1932/33. Western governments ignored it due to the desire to gain the Soviets as an ally in trade and war. By the 1937 census, 11,000,000 Ukrainians were no longer present. Some left, but most starved to death.