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

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1aRN8 TIL that contronyms are words that are spelled the same, but mean the opposite of each other. If one were asked to dust the chandelier, that would imply removing dust, but to dust the fruit might refer to the adding, or sprinkling of dust.
e0WDD TIL Ironbridge, a town in England, takes its name from an iron bridge named The Iron Bridge.
RR88 TIL Sony once sued itself; RIAA(partially controlled by Sony Music) sued Launch.com(owned by Sony’s Tech & Business unit), meaning that the Music Dept. somehow sued it’s Tech Dept.
lol67 TIL 1 of 3 job exemptions in US child labor laws are for “the making of evergreen wreaths”
KO4bB TIL that Luckenbach, Texas, which was made famous in a Waylon Jennings song, has a population of 3.