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TIL someone wrote a smartphone app called “Nickelblock” that plays Nickelback every time you try to look at your Ex’s profile on Facebook.

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W79OL Today I learned that eight elements were discovered in the village of Ytterby in Sweden, and four of these elements (yttrium, terbium, erbium, and ytterbium) were named after Ytterby itself.
x68Jo TIL that in 1986 a limnic eruption caused a toxic gas cloud of CO2 to be released from Lake Nyos. The cloud traveled downhill at 30mph and killed 1,786 people nearly instantly. People have since moved back to the area, and scientists believe it is only a matter of time before this could happen again
m1mlO TIL that Johnny Cash was a spokesperson for a bank and as part of the promotion they renamed their ATMs as 'Johnny Cash Machines'
WRAA TIL that Michael Jackson prank called Russell Crow for “three fucking years” despite the pair having never met.
Neg6 TIL that in today’s dollars, John D. Rockefeller’s net worth would be around $663 billion.