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TIL even though the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens is considered a medium sized eruption relative to other volcanic eruptions, the landslide that happened less than a second before was the largest landslide in recorded history

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YpVVd TIL The Scunthorpe Problem. Automatic profanity filters on the Internet see banned words inside other words and create problems for users. It is named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's filter prevented Scunthorpe residents from creating accounts due to the unfortunate substring it contains.
5VPZk TIL: In 2016 the BBC received more than 1000 complaints about an episode of children's TV show 'Fireman Sam', these complaints were then forwarded on to Channel 5, as the BBC had not broadcast 'Fireman Sam' since 2008.
kOAlB TIL: With a practice dating back to the 16th century, there are still some banks in Italy which accept wheels of Parmesan as collateral for a secured loan with favourable terms
QN9MX TIL some heraldry depict an animal penis called pizzle, and the omission of it was seen as a grave insult. In 1579 the pizzle in the coat of arms of Appenzell in Switzerland was forgotten by a calendar printer of St. Gallen, which brought the two regions to the brink of war.
mWoP TIL that, of the 15 most successful movies of 2014, none was from an original screenplay, one (American Sniper) was from a book, the rest are remakes, sequels, and comic adaptations