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TIL Harry Truman was once a member of the KKK

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e0ee4 TIL Taylor Energy is responsible for an oil spill that has been flowing for the last 14 years and there is no signs of it stopping anytime soon.
rM6d TIL in 2015 a bus driver in India took a nap on his bus, only to be awoken to a monkey that had climbed into the driver’s cabin & had started the engine. As the driver ran to the cabin, the monkey panicked, shifted gears & jumped out. The bus rammed 2 other buses before the driver regained control.
MjRa TIL One of the first Egyptian creation myths involved Atum, the first being, reproducing by masturbating & swallowing his own cum. He then spit out the god of moisture & mist, literally naming it “spit” (Tefnut). Then he sneezed out the god of air & emptiness, literally naming it “sneeze” (Shu).
OPJ4 TIL a 10-year-old accidentally created a new molecule in science class : Tetranitratoxycarbon
pYBwN TIL Pixar renders its animated movies with one of the top 25 supercomputers in the world; with all that power, it still took 2 years of processing to render every frame of Monsters University.