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TIL about Volcanic Hairs! or Pele's Hair. Volcanic glass that stretches as its cooled making threads and bundles looking like clumps of blonde or golden hair.

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V7a0 TIL a man in New Mexico threw a live mouse into a fire. The fiery rodent then ran back into his home, which burned down.
yvZX TIL the song “Every Breath You Take,” was inspired partially by Orwell’s 1984. Sting himself has expressed dismay that people think it’s about love and commitment, when he was writing about obsession and control.
a01A TIL that the South Park Movie holds the Guinness World Record for “Most Swearing in an Animated Film” 399 profane words, including 144 uses of fuck
lg6V TIL Smoke Detectors mostly chirp in the dead of night because the chemical reaction in batteries slows down when the air get’s colder thus tripping the detectors low battery detector.
Wb69 Til that senator Joseph McCarthy was also key in creating the ‘Lavender scare’ which targeted homosexuals