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TIL that gold miners in Peru are clear-cutting forests, washing down the soil with high pressure hoses and putting mercury on the slurry to mine gold, ruining everything they touch.

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0aX1 TIL approximately 7% of lethal injection executions are botched in the United States.
dy18 TIL that Oxford University is so old, one of its contituent colleges called “New College” was established in 1379.
G5pJ TIL after a Federal Reserve interest rate decision in 2013, trades were registered in the Chicago stock market within 2 milliseconds of the announcement. These trades were later found to be insider trading, as this information would take 7 milliseconds to reach Chicago at the speed of light.
j6EX TIL that in 2003, a glitch was found in Pokemon R/B/Y which allows you to catch Mew (or even the other starters)
AD4nd TIL Earlier mammals like cats, rabbits, and ferrets experience endocrine changes during mating - usually from clitoral stimulation during intercourse - that induce ovulation. In humans, orgasms lead to similar endocrine changes but are not required for ovulation.