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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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GARQ7 TIL the original name for a zipper was "hookless fastener." The original patent for "Zipper" ONLY referred to a specific type of boots that utilized the hookless fastener.
7rY7x TIL Impostor syndrome (also known as impostor phenomenon or fraud syndrome or the impostor experience) is a concept describing individuals who are marked by an inability to internalize their accomplishments and a persistent fear of being exposed as a “fraud”.
Lkmem TIL That Lobsters Communicate By Peeing At Each Others Faces
LQW50 TIL that in 60+ years of human spaceflight, only 675 people have been in space(by the USAF definition of flying at least 50 miles or 80 kilometres high)
QN08L TIL that Hayley Mills starred in a 1960's film called "Whistle Down the Wind", which was based on a novel by her mother Mary Hayley Bell, Lady Mills.