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TIL that the Colorado River has rarely actually reached the ocean for decades, all the water gets used or evaporates.

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1655d TIL there was a Finnish actress named Sirkka Sari who was born in May 1920 and died in July 1939. At a hotel party with fellow actors, she fell into a chimney while on the roof, thinking it was a balcony. Only 19 at her death, her life spanned only the interwar period, never witnessing WW1 or WW2.
E1Yvw TIL Chiropractic is actually a form of "alternative medicine", where studies have not found evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective and collectively found that spinal manipulation was ineffective at treating any condition.
KYVkR TIL While in Italy, La Cosa Nostra boss Vito Genovese ordered the assassination of an anti-fascist reporter living in America - Carlo Tresca - to impress dictator Benito Mussolini.
mrdo TIL that in 1867, when a San Francisco policeman wanted to involuntarily commit an insane but harmless man who declared himself emperor, the police chief refused, saying “that he had shed no blood; robbed no one; and despoiled no country; which is more than can be said of his fellows in that line.”
KYR6w TIL during WWII, the USS Shark torpedoed and sank a Japanese freighter carrying 1,781 POWs. Only nine survived. A Japanese destroyer dropped depth charges and destroyed the Shark in the same battle.