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TIL that pumping water from the ground causes the ground to contract. Areas with high well usage can lose dozens and dozens of feet of elevation due to this "land subsidence".

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5VQaD TIL that humans are more closely related to cats than dogs.
e0mgD TIL NASA once raided a Denny's as part of a sting operation to bust a 75 year old woman for possessing and attempting to sell a moon rock the size of a rice grain
vx98 TIL barcode scanners scan the white bars not the black ones
JYb9k TIL about the Sweaty T-Shirts test. Men wore t-shirts for two days and then women were tested on which smell they liked. Women preferred the smell of men who were genetically similar but had different immune systems. Inheriting different immune systems gives children a survival advantage.
QN6M TIL From 1953 to 1958 the Cincinnati Reds officially changed their name to the Cincinnati Redlegs because they were afraid of being thought to be associated with communism.