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TIL underground salt caverns are a common way to store crude oil

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AbNg TIL After banning pit bulls in 1991, the rate of dog bites in the UK remained the same.
ZLNR TIL that for a science fair experiment in 1969, a 14 year old scientist used genes to change chicken feathers from white to partially black, which his teacher said was playing God.
mxGRo TIL: Heraclitus, a pre-Socratic philosopher, deposited his book in the Artemisium which was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
XZMD TIL In 2005 an innocent man was pinned to the ground by British police and shot 7 times in the head point blank thinking he was a suicide bomber and later tried to cover it up.
0D5p TIL the USSR promoted a pseudoscientific form of agriculture that rejected genetic heritability for political reasons. Up to 3000 scientists critical of Lysenkoism were imprisoned or killed for being “bourgeois”, fascist or anti-Marxist saboteurs