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TIL the 1902 Saint-Pierre Volcano eruption killed all 35,000 people in the town except one man who survived because he was the worst prisoner and lived in a solitary confinement cell.

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6yO7 TIL that in 1966 French President Charles de Gaulle demanded that all American military personnel leave France. American President Lyndon Johnson asked if that order applied to American soldiers in French cemeteries.
7rVvx TIL of gutter oil - cooking oil which has been illegally recycled from waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers, grease traps, slaughterhouse waste and sewage from sewer drains. It is estimated 10% of low end restaurants in China use it
YpElv TIL a 61 year old potato farmer won an ultra marathon Sydney to Melbourne in 1983
r00y TIL After the 1929 stock market crash, the US government deported millions of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans regardless of citizenship
8OGL TIL That Bamboo Blossoms Only Once In Every 120 Years And When It Does The Entire Bamboo Forest Dies