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TIL that volcanoes generate ~200 million tons of CO2 emissions annually while human activities generate ~24 billion tons of CO2 emissions.

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VMaZp TIL a study found people can accurately gauge the intelligence of men, but not women, by viewing their faces. Both men and women were able to accurately evaluate the intelligence of men by viewing facial photographs, but with women, no relationship between perceived intelligence and IQ was found.
DQxZv TIL Disney XD’s “Pair of Kings” was forced to replace co-star Mitchell Musso, who was arrested in Burbank California for drunk driving in 2011, with Adam Hicks, who was subsequently arrested in Burbank, California for armed robbery in 2018
6968w TIL During the 19th century, Armand David was the first westerner to 'discover' the Giant Panda, which he believed to be a "new species". In the course of his explorations, Père David sent back to Paris specimens of 63 previously unknown animals and 65 birds.
Lk08v TIL: Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine is a convicted Paedophile after he pleaded guilty to the felony “use of a child in a sexual performance”. The incident involved a 13-year-old girl performing sex acts, and he later distributed videos of the incident online as part of a music video.
N7k08 TIL that while George Orwell's Room 101 has become a euphemism for torture, the other great anti-totalitarian novel of the 1940ies, Darkness At Noon (1940), had its protagonist trapped in cell... 404.