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TIL: The Lyre Bind can imitate chainsaws

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R5bo9 TIL That the body mass index was invented in 1830 and 1850 by a Belgian mathematician, astronomer and statistician and not a physician.
N1jJ TIL that when the Paracutin volcano was born, it emerged so quickly that it pushed up the ground beneath people. Within 24 hours, it was 15 stories high, and by the end of the week it was the height of the Great Pyramids.
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