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TIL that 29% of San Francisco’s air pollution comes from China

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e0gDb TIL the federal government setup sting operations in 1985 to catch individuals buying child pornography. In one instance, they offered a farmer a magazine 3 times and reluctantly accepted the third time. He was later found innocent as the arrest was considered entrapment.
womm6 TIL there is a massive abandoned underground Airbase in Croatia
E1Ll0 TIL while Matt Ryan’s Constantine was canceled after one season, he reprised the same role in Legends of Tomorrow until season 6. In season 7 is he recast as Dr. Gwyn Davies.
164r TIL that the underwear bomber had agreed to being sodomized by his Muslim brethren in the name of jihad so as to widen his anus just enough to be able to hold explosives inside.
OoLpg TIL that Alessandro Volta not only invented battery, but also discovered and isolated methane and was a prime minister of short-lived Cisalpine Republic