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TIL about decade volcanoes: 16 volcanoes with a history of particularly violent eruptions near population centers

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pajp TIL in 1945 the New Zealand Division alone fought the Nazis to take Trieste, in Italy. When it was secured, US Marines organised a parade, headed by themselves with a banner ‘US Marines. Second to None.’ Behind them marched the NZD carrying a sheet with the word ‘None.’
bxa TIL 97% of girls in Egypt have had their clitoris cut off.
J1rAQ TIL that Wilhelm Furtwängler, a leading German conductor, called Hitler a "hissing street pedlar" and an "enemy of the human race". He also refused to give the Nazi salute, wrote public letters denouncing antisemitism, and once got into a shouting match with Hitler over Nazi cultural policy.
BePr TIL a 7-year-old girl recognized herself on a milk carton as a missing kid. She might never have been rescued, except her abductor bought the carton and cut out the image, giving it to her to save. A friend saw it and she was reunited with her father.
y1aa TIL that the blobfish is actually a normal looking fish, it just decompresses when you take it out of extreme depths.