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TIL there is a famous boiling lake of lava in Antarctica on Ross Island, complete with its own active volcano aka "Mount Erebus".

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d0Zr TIL that the writer of Tomb Raider and Mirror’s Edge is Rhianna Pratchett, Terry Pratchett’s daughter. She also contribute to Bioshock Infinite.
JkQ8 TIL that Mussolini had his first wife and son forced into psychiatric institutions when they refused to distance themselves from him. Ida Dalser’s (his ex-wife) death was registered as a “brain hemorrhage” and Benito Albino Mussolini’s (his first son) was caused by repeated coma inducing-injections.
LXV0 TIL X-rays are named such because Röntgen didn’t have a name for them, and temporarily used the mathematical designation “x” for something unknown.
x65kD TIL that the recently revived sport of SlamBall was invented by Mason Gordon, a TV writer who had penned episodes of Nickelodeon's "Kenan & Kel" and "Cousin Skeeter."
5VYXk TIL of the Potato Park. A seed bank in Peru, it is managed by Indigenous communities and focuses on Andean crops and plants. It specialises in potatoes, and houses samples of 2300 of the 4000 varieties in the world