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TIL asphalt is not only a naturally occurring substance (tar pits, oil sands, etc.), but is erupted from asphalt volcanoes, a rare type of submarine volcano. Some of these have formed seamounts, and a few are even still active today.

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e0v14 TIL that the name of Monaco, the second-smallest and wealthiest country in the world, comes from the Greek "μόνοικος", "single house", which bears the sense of a people either settled in a "single habitation" or of "living apart" from others
DYyj TIL: There is a 3.4 km long tunnel under Germany build only to test lasers.
gMeNW TIL that in the last 7 years craters started to appear in the Siberian Tundra, similar to the craters that form by cryovolcanism on the Saturn's moon Enceladus.
N7OQ1 TIL that rare percentage of females develop undescended testes with an absent uterus leading to a high level of testosterone in the system.
5wp TIL there was a bridge in southern Hungary that was found to still be rigged with dynamite from World War II…in October of 1999.