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TIL that the streets in Hollister, California are slowly moving apart due to the creeping Calaveras fault

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8alK8 TIL WW2 Black Sheep Squadron member Bill Case cheated death by randomly lowering the seat in his cockpit. In battle, a bullet from a Japanese Zero hit his cockpit and bloodied his scalp. If he had been sitting an inch higher, he would be dead. He went on to live another 52 years.
graG7 TIL A "boneappletea" moment like "escape goat" or "all intensive purposes" is actually called an Eggcorn.
GwxE TIL that carrying Arabic flashcards is considered a valid reason for arrest in a US airport.
eo9L TIL in 1988, a man named Robert W. Faid published a book mathematically “proving” that the Antichrist was Mikhail Gorbachev, with odds of exactly 710,609,175,188,282,000 to 1. He later won an Ig Nobel prize for it.
E9wV TIL Boulder, CO has been the least obese U.S. metro area for the past 3 years at 12.5%. Most obese? Southern tip of Texas, 38.5%