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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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XKjk TIL Peter Tripp, a radio DJ, stayed awake on air for 200 hours. The resulting sleep deprivation drove him crazy.
Ly80 TIL: The common spiral depiction of the Milky Way Galaxy used in media is actually another galaxy:Messier 74. Because we dwell within the Milky Way Galaxy, it is impossible for us to take a picture of its spiral structure from the outside.
m1KEo TIL That Dwane The Rock Johnson started his career in WWE with the name “Rocky Maivia”
n5ld TIL in 2013 The Wall Street Journal discovered a cache of files that revealed the U.S. government lobotomized over 2000 veterans against their will after WW2. The veterans were lobotomized for reasons such as PTSD, depression, schizophrenia, and occasionally homosexuality.
won91 TIL BBC developed a written form for West African Pidgin. Pidgin has 75 million speakers in West Africa but did not have a standard written form prior to this. E.g. ,"Wen be Eid al-Fitr and how dem dey decide di date?"