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Til On April 14th 2010 the main eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland began, impeding air travel in all of Europe for days

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pgrN TIL of Tommy McHugh, who at 51 “attempted to evacuate his bowels quickly due to a knock on the toilet door,” suffered a brain hemorrhage, and unlocked a previously hidden talent for creating poetry and art
PPWG TIL a hybrid of cattle and bison is called a Beefalo
BgJWW TIL that despite homosexual activity being punishable by death in the country, Iran allows gender reassignment surgery, and performs more of them than any country except Thailand. In 2005 they did 7 times as many as all of the EU combined.
D8Qg TIL - Childhood lead poisoning was linked to lead-based paints in 1904. Several EU countries banned it in 1909, League of Nations banned it in 1922. The US did not start phasing it out until 1971 & houses built before 1978 may contain lead paint
jNGXv TIL American universities are fearing a massive drop in the number of people going to college by 2025 due to lowering birth rates