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During the past 24 hours, the United States Geological Survey reported just 6  earthquakes in the lower 48 states and Alaska.

According to the collective genius that is national today dot come, today is National Tin Can Day, a day worth of our attention.

On this day in 1861, the great state of Georgia seceded from the Union.

Born on this day in 1736,  in Greenock Scotland, inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist James Watt.