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TIL the Mount Pelée volcanic eruption destroyed the adjacent city of St. Pierre with pyroclastic flow and only one man survived in place because he had been imprisoned in a poorly ventilated, dungeon-like cell

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kDYW TIL the band “Twenty One Pilots” got their name from the book “All My Sons” by Arthur Miller. In the book, a man sends out faulty airplane parts and causes the death of 21 pilots in World War II
Z8XnB TIL of Noor Inayat Khan - renowned for her service in the Special Operations Executive. The first female wireless operator sent from Britain to France, she was captured by Nazis, her notes found but she refused to speak. Even under interrogation. She was executed in Dachau at 30
ZpgAa TIL: In 2008 a man beheaded and ate a man’s eyes on a greyhound bus in Canada and was found not guilty of murder and is now roaming free
OKw6 TIL of Positronium, a nearly massless element made out of a meta-stable mix of matter and antimatter with no protons or neutrons. It can even form chemical compounds such as Positronium Hydride. When it does collapse, it releases pure energy as flash of gamma radiation, leaving nothing behind.
9wwrM TIL of Adnan Khashoggi, a successful Saudi businessman who, among other business, would bring together US arms companies and the Saudi Government, and make a commission on deals. He became so rich he had a fleet of private jets and his lavish lifestyle cost $250,000 a day just to maintain.