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TIL that ice volcanoes exist. Formally known as cryovolcanoes, they erupt water, gas and hydrocarbons.

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Wa4A TIL Children’s books have 50% more rare words in them than does an average showing of adult prime-time television.
VBdR4 TIL baseball legend Ted Williams’ body is frozen in liquid nitrogen in the hopes that future technology may someday be able to revive him
jk8j TIL Margaret Thatcher was reportedly more proud of becoming the first Prime Minister with a science degree than the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
0wPo1 TIL that in 1945 Myanmar, 900 Imperial Japanese soldiers crossed through 10 miles of mangrove swamps that contained saltwater crocodiles in an attempted retreat from the Royal Navy. Less than 500 Japanese soldiers are known to have reached the end of those swamps.
K9lG TIL a giant bronze statue of RoboCop is to be erected in Detroit this year thanks to a Kickstarter.