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TIL Cryovolcanoes are volcanoes that erupt water, ammonia, or methane. They don't exist on Earth, but they are present on colder planets and moons like Pluto and Ceres.

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wLaVM TIL that despite Australia being known for deadly venomous variants of spiders such as the Funnelweb and Redback; nobody has died from a spider bite in the entire country since 1981; largely thanks to antivenoms
1aKwW TIL: According to a research done in United States, 1 out of every 100 genes of white Americans comes from a Black ancestor, and up to 90% of Black Americans have at least one white ancestor.
VBJkD TIL that Stollen is a traditional German Christmas cake-like fruit bread made with Orangeat (candied orange peel).
rke TIL on average 1 in 4 Norwegians knew a victim affected by the 2011 terrorist attack
x61a5 TIL that while the song Hurt So Good by John Mellencamp never reached number one in the US, it spent more weeks in the top 10 than any other charting single during the 1980s.