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TIL Earthquakes produce light and scientists aren't sure why.

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N7m66 TIL about Congo's Salonga National Park. The world’s second largest tropical rainforest national park and the largest in Africa. It is considered to be practically virgin, unaffected by human activities and largely unexplored.
1aVBX TIL that after nesting, Australian magpies will just start attacking people. Due to the bird being a protected species, people have gotten creative in finding ways to protect themselves.
OEnR TIL that in 1944, the Dodgers, Giants, and Yankees played a “tri-cornered game,” which consisted of all three teams competing against each other and rotating between fielding, batting, and resting.
69LXQ TIL that Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse actually had a full conversation before, in this movie from 1992. 🤯🤯
LkLEr TIL "As a boy of five, John Brown witnessed a slave his own age being beaten with a fire shovel. He vowed to become a foe of slavery." As an abolitionist, he said "These men are all talk. What we need is action—action!" He was ultimately hanged as a traitor for acts which spurred the Civil War.