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TIL that fracking results in millions of gallons of “flowback liquid” being pumped to the surface. The flowback liquid contains radioactive material, heavy metals, hydrocarbons and other toxins and is stored on site in pits, injected into underground wells or treated at an off-site facility.

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JYvrv TIL DC Comic's Watchmen was originally intended to use existing heroes from a company DC had just purchased. DC liked the proposal for the Watchmen but didn't want their new characters killed or made into villains. The Watchmen creative team reworked the Charlton heroes into similar substitutes.
grPND Til: The Reason Samuel L. Jackson yells “Motherf---er" is that as a child he had a stutter and this helped keep his speech fluid
WkxPo TIL that owls do not have eyeballs. Rather, they have tubular eyes and are unable to move them. This is the same reason they are able to move their heads 270°
e0jmE TIL that AI(s) playing Chess, despite continually beating human players, are still not able to play according to the equilibrium strategy that forces the opponent into a draw. A strategy that was proven to exist by the mathematician Nash in the 1960s.
6EK0Z TIL in 2006 when the Japanese government announced that ear cleaning would no longer be considered a medical procedure, thus making medical licenses unnecessary for ear cleaners, a new type of business sprung up in Tokyo and other big cities: ear-cleaning parlors, which now number in the hundreds.