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TIL 14% of Americans are illiterate

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XEgO8 TIL Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula has the highest concentration of active (29) volcanos on Earth. Separated by only 180 kilometers (110 miles), 4 of them, Shiveluch, Bezymianny, Tolbachik, and Kizimen were all erupting simultaneously on January 11, 2013.
KYDJw TIL about The Cure for Insomnia, an experimental movie released in 1987 by a man named John Henry Timmis IV, that held the Guinness World Record for longest film at around 87 hours. It consists of an artist reading a 4,080 page poem, and there are believed to be no copies left.
PXNL TIL Comedy Central only agreed to air the word “shit” uncensored in the South Park episode “It Hits the Fan” (the first South Park to do so) if the word was used an absurdly high number of times. The episode had 200 total shits, 162 spoken, 38 written.
ZpyNa TIL in 1976 Libya demanded neighboring Tunisia cease deployment of a massive military vehicle near it's border or risk escalation. The offensive military vehicle was a Jawa Sandcrawler being built on the set of a movie.
ADA8a TIL There is a train station in Japan that had plans to close, but noticed a student was the only one using it. They decided to close when she graduates from high school.