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TIL One of Hawaii’s five active volcanoes, Kilauea, has been continuously spewing lava since 1983. It is the longest-lived volcanic eruption anywhere on Earth.

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Lkv9p TIL of TempleOS. An operating system written entirely by schizophrenic programmer Terry Davis, who believed his code was a third temple that could talk to God. The innovative os has been noted for its speed, one engineer noting Davis would have been another Wozniak or Jobs were he not mentally ill.
KYVlQ TIL that the the current Mexican ambassador to the United States, Esteban Moctezuma, is a direct descendant of Moctezuma II, the last emperor of the Aztecs.
EgK9X TIL about the italien Hatchiko, a dog named Fido, who waited for 14 years at a bus stop for his owner, who was killed in an allied air raid during world war 2.
x6A80 TIL that Cambodian King Jayavarman VII built 102 hospitals in order to serve the people of the Khmer Empire.
wL7B6 TIL that when a Doctor is confirming that a pregnant woman’s water has broken they will conduct a “Fern Test”. Under a microscope the amniotic fluid will resemble a beautiful pattern resembling a fern.