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TIL The 2018 eruption of Kīlauea in Hawaii increased the Calderas size by nearly 2x.

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xjjk TIL that Kryptonite was invented because Superman’s original voice actor wanted time off, and the only way to do this was to make Superman sick.
eAL TIL a kamikaze pilot who struck the USS Missouri during WWII was given a military burial at sea with full honors after the captain decided the young Japanese pilot had done his job to the best of his ability. The dent in the side of the ship remains to this day.
Lknrp TIL that oysters make pearls when an irritant enters their mouth and they deposit a mineral to coat the irritant and make it more bearable, forming a pearl.
BrlDe TIL the Lewis & Clark expedition only suffered one casualty. Dysentery, snake bites, a dislocated shoulder, venereal disease and Lewis being shot in the buttocks after being mistaken for an elk all threatened the group's well-being, but the only man to die did so as a result of a burst appendix.
VB6B8 TIL the word "thagomizer", the spikey part of a stegosaur's tail was not named by paleontologists. It came from a Far Side comic quote: "named for the late Thag Simmons" - and then paleontologists actually started calling it that.