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TIL The ghost town of Picher, Oklahoma was evacuated in 2009. The town was the center of a massive lead and zinc mining complex; the Army Corps of Engineers declared in 2006 that 86% of the town's structures were so undermined that they were in imminent danger of collapse.

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ny5o TIL when a flea is infected by Y.pestis (Black Death/plague), the bacteria build up and form a film that blocks the flea’s esophagus. After it bites a host, the flea cannot eat until it has vomited up this blockage, spreading a concentrated dose of the bacteria to its target.
0OyL TIL an Australian news anchor wore the same suit every day for a year to illustrate the fashion double standard for men and women. No one noticed.
DQNRg TIL Caecilians have evolved resistance to elapid snake venom independently at least 15 times, with some species being entirely immune. The only caecilians that do not have resistance to the neurotoxins are species in Seychelles, which has no elapid snakes on these islands.
M76DV TIL there is an 85 mile stretch of land on the Mississippi River called "Cancer Alley" due to the concentration of petrochemical and refinery plants there.
NXJ71 TIL about Philipp Mainländer, a German philosopher who argued that God committed suicide to create the universe, the cosmos being God’s corpse itself. The only way for God to do this, an infinite being, was to shatter its timeless being into a time-bound universe. Mainländer then took his own life