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TIL: On April 1st 1974 in Alaska, Oliver Bikar set a 100 tire fire alight inside the crater of extinct volcano Mount Edgecumbe. Upon arrival an investigating Coast Guard helicopter found April Fool’s written in 50 ft high letters.

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