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TIL the Indonesia Volcano Erupted earlier today-

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rN1vy TIL, during the Cambodian genocide 1.5 - 2 million people were killed and the country's life expectancy dropped below 20.
LkXRr TIL there's a max height that water can be sucked up a straw: 10 meters. At 10 meters, a perfect vacuum is created at the top of the straw, and water will begin boiling spontaneously.
0JG1 TIL that the best selling instrumental single in the world was the “Star Wars Theme and Cantina Band” by Meco
Erdp TIL the original Illuminati’s goals were “oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power, and to support women’s education and gender equality” in otherwords a pretty awesome group of people.
WA6B TIL Steve Crohn was one of the first studied cases of HIV immunity. His Immunity was due to a mutation in the CCR5 delta-5 receptor of CD4-t*cells, this prevented the virus from “entering” the immune cell. He committed suicide at the age of 66 after most of his friends died from the disease.