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TIL that Grover Cleveland is the only President in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office.

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67oZ TIL the Mount Pelée volcanic eruption destroyed the adjacent city of St. Pierre with pyroclastic flow and only one man survived in place because he had been imprisoned in a poorly ventilated, dungeon-like cell
epkJ6 TIL that some bra’s can also be used as a gas mask. Kinda funny, kinda genius.
Y7BMB TIL that Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son of Kim Jong-il, was assassinated by two women who believed they were acting in a prank video
GYGo4 TIL scientists discovered in Brazil a 3,000 year old termite nation as big as the UK. To build it, the termites moved an amount of soil equivalent to building 4,000 Great Pyramids of Giza
LQ11p TIL about 2,4-DNP, a chemical that was used, among other things, to make black dye. 3 workers died during the 1890s after accidentally ingesting it. It dissipates energy from food in the body as heat, making people rapidly lose body fat and die from an excessive rise in body temperature.