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TIL that in the last 7 years craters started to appear in the Siberian Tundra, similar to the craters that form by cryovolcanism on the Saturn's moon Enceladus.

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6djl TIL that the UK, for economic reasons, sent up to 150,000 poor children to Canada, New Zealand and other parts of the Commonwealth from 1869 to the 1970s, often telling them their parents had died, and telling parents that their children had been placed for adoption elsewhere in the UK
Wamo TIL the worst shark attack in human history was when the USS Indianapolis was sunk sending 900 men into the shark infested waters. Only 300 men survived.
woeB7 TIL about mail jumping, which is a way of delivering mail by jumping off a moving boat to a dock, putting mail into a mailbox, retrieving the outgoing mail, and then jumping back onto the moving boat. The USPS uses this method to deliver mail to houses on Geneva Lake from June 15 until September 15.
E1yQW TIL A train company invented a way to ship oil without pipelines; bitumen is converted into a solid product and sealed in plastic made from recyclables. The pucks are designed to be transported in regular container cars by train and loaded onto cargo ships at coal terminals. They float too!
P1WoO TIL in the 19th and early 20th centuries the British army maintained a network of "lock hospitals" established to manage the spread of STDs around colonial military installations due to the prevalence of venereal diseases amongst British troops. India had lock hospitals on the larger bases.