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TIL That There Were Volcanoes on the Moon During the Dinosaur Age

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E1bVV TIL police are called to Walmart stores 3-4 times as often as they are to other big-box retailers like Target. 25% of all arrests in St. Petersburg, FL and 92% of larceny calls in Granite Falls, NC are attributed to single Walmart locations in each city.
LQ759 TIL about the Tiger Mask donation phenomenon in Japan. It began in 2010 when someone left ten school backpacks at a child center, signed "Naoto Date" after a manga wrestler raised in an orphanage. Since then, copycats have donated toys, food, and money to children's facilities across Japan.
m1ZQx TIL there is a Mount Kennedy in Canada, named after the president JFK a year after his assassination. Canada selected it because it was close to the US-Canada border and it serves as a symbol of the two nations' friendship.
OGyXa TIL about the Venera Program (1961-1984), the Soviet space program that set a number of achievements in space exploration, consisting of sixteen probes made. Thirteen successfully Venusian atmosphere, and ten successfully made planet fall.
ANQ0w TIL After the Aral Sea dried up significantly, Kazakhstan revived the northern part of the lake while the South Aral Sea in Uzbekistan is almost completely desiccated. Kazakhstan’s 12km-long dyke saved part of the northern sea by connecting it with the southern section