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TIL Dr. Suess was a political cartoonist, wrote a series of books on boners (NOT what you're thinking), made weird taxidermy sculptures out of assorted dead animal parts and had a collection of "Midnight Paintings" he didn't allow to be released until after his death.

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R7W8a TIL About "Intraplate Earthquakes" which refers to earthquakes that occur in places away from typical earthquake areas. This means that earthquakes could happen anywhere and puts cities and towns thought to be "earthquake safe zones" at a very high risk due to the unpreparedness for such events
YXE7 TIL Martha Stewart once dated Anthony Hopkins, but broke it off because she couldn’t get it out of her head that he was Hannibal Lector. Verified by her in a NPR: Wait Wait interview
6EWpQ TIL that in 1966 after failing for 3 years to extinguish a gas well fire Soviet authorities decided to use a 30kt atomic bomb. It was detonated at a depth of 1,500m, crushing the well and extinguishing the flames in seconds. Following this success the same technique was use on 4 other well fires.
oRyAE TIL there were no casualties at the Battle of Fort Sumter, the first engagement of the American Civil War. However, two privates were mortally wounded during the 100-gun salute to the flag, which was Major Anderson’s one condition for withdrawal.
6EXJ TIL the computer was not invented in the 1940’s. In the 1830’s Charles Babbage designed a mechanical, steam powered beast with a CPU, RAM, even a printer, that could do most of the things early electronic computers could. It was never built.