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TIL fracking likely caused two of the largest earthquakes east of the Rocky Mountains

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gBkW TIL in World War 2, Audie Murphy’s best friend was killed by German soldiers who pretended to surrender. Murphy then single-handedly stormed a machine-gun-fortified house while taking heavy fire to attack his friend’s killers. He ended up wounding two, killing six, and taking eleven prisoners.
9djD TIL the Darlington Raceway aka “The Track Too Tough to Tame” is asymmetrical not becuase it makes racing on it more challenging, but because a local refused to move his minnow pond out of the way
PWgZ TIL Guy Fawkes is the reason we call guys “guys”. From the tradition of burning hideous effigies of him on 5 November, the word came to mean “ugly man”, and then just “man”
rNOe TIL Vatican City has the lowest age of consent and highest crime rate in Europe
rwOy TIL The center star of Orion’s sword isn’t a star; it’s the Orion Nebula and is the only nebula visible from Earth with the naked eye.