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TIL a geologist was ridiculed for decades for claiming the Pacific Northwest was carved by a catastrophic Ice Age flood. NASA satellite images proved him right in the 1970s. He finally received geology's highest honor at 96 and said "All my enemies are dead, so I have no one to gloat over."
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TIL a geologist was ridiculed for decades for claiming the Pacific Northwest was carved by a catastrophic Ice Age flood. NASA satellite images proved him right in the 1970s. He finally received geology's highest honor at 96 and said "All my enemies are dead, so I have no one to gloat over."

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u/FinancialGarage245 — 8 days ago
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TIL a fungal blight accidentally introduced from Japan in 1904 killed three to four billion American chestnut trees within decades, and it was once said a squirrel could travel from Maine to Georgia without ever touching the ground, just by hopping through chestnut branches the whole way

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u/FinancialGarage245 — 13 days ago
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TIL the CIA spent an estimated $20 million over 5 years surgically turning a cat into a listening device, implanting a microphone in its ear canal and a radio transmitter at the base of its skull, before quietly concluding cats couldn't reliably be trained for espionage and shelving the program

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u/FinancialGarage245 — 14 days ago
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TIL a wealthy Toronto lawyer's 1926 will left his fortune to whichever woman in the city could give birth to the most children over the following 10 years, sparking a decade-long "baby race" during the Great Depression that went all the way to Canada's Supreme Court

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u/FinancialGarage245 — 15 days ago