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TIL there is a mud volcano that has been erupting since May 2006 in Sidoarjo, Indonesia. Although it has been contained with levees, mud floodings are still an often recurrance disrupting local highways and villages

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1xxV TIL that Alice Wadsworth, President of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, argued in 1917 against granting women the right to vote in part because “It would be an official endorsement of nagging as national policy.”
78k0p TIL Stone Age people used to practice trepanning – an early medical procedure that involved drilling a hole in the skull. The patients didn’t all die. Lots of skulls have been found with partly healed holes.
eDmJ TIL garbage collectors in NYC make $144,000/yr, up from $79,000 a decade ago.
16RE7 TIL about Dr. Robert Liston, a victorian London surgeon known for his speed and strength, could remove a leg in less than 30 seconds, often holding the knife between his teeth. However, his speed led to mishaps, including slicing off a patient's testicle and severing his assistant's fingers.
LwdZ TIL Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, believes the earth is secretly controlled by giant inter-dimensional lizards who came to earth to harvest gold that strengthens their lizard nervous systems.