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TIL, in the January 1982 California floods, more than 18,000 landslides swept through the SF Bay Area killing 33 and causing $280 million in damages.

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Eg0Ow TIL in January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg filed eight "quiet title and partition" lawsuits against hundreds of native Hawaiians to claim small tracts of land which they owned on the island of Kauai. This land is contained within the 700 acres of land that Zuckerberg had purchased in 2014.
Wk9dB TIL of the Woozle effect which occurs when frequent citation of publications that lack evidence misleads the public into thinking or believing there is evidence and nonfacts become urban myths and factoids. It is based upon an imaginary character from Winnie the Pooh.
aDv9 TIL… When Alan Shepard was waiting for liftoff to become the first man in space, a reporter asked him what he was thinking about. He replied “The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.”
nYyb TIL Glenn Howerton from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia was born in Japan, and grew up in London and South Korea
gM7Ab TIL about the crab spider which can change colour to match the flower it waits on to ambush its prey.