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TIL about the Oakland Buddha, placed by a resident on a street corner to prevent illegal dumping, the statue has now become a shrine for the local Vietnamese population who leave offerings and have even built a shelter for the Buddah. Crime in the area dropped 82%

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4k4ka TIL that the Alaska oil pipeline (and other pipelines) have naturally occurring magnetic fields. Due to its length, location near the north pole, and running mostly north-south, the earths magnetic field induces a charge in the pipeline that can be measured.
0dv8N TIL that 1 to 4% of the general population has antisocial personality disorder.
XERZE TIL that land that was covered by glaciers during the last Ice Age is still rising about a centimeter a year, 12,000 years after the massive weight of the ice sheets is gone
KOJrE TIL that most symbols we use in mathematics can be neatly categorized into the following categories: constants, variables, delimiters, operators, relational symbols and notational symbols
OGP1Y TIL In 1971 Margaret Thatcher removed free milk for school children over the age of 7 in the UK, earning the nickname "Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher".