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Pwjw TIL in 1991 Maurice Krafft, a french Volcanologist, was filmed saying “I am never afraid because I have seen so many eruptions in 23 years that even if I die tomorrow, I don’t care”. He was killed during an eruption the very next day alongside his wife on Mt. Unzen in Japan.
R5p8Q TIL Chimpanzees and other apes can be born with a defect similar to Down Syndrome.
X0vVr TIL Canada's original gothic Parliament Building, including the Victoria Tower, was destroyed by fire in 1916. Only the Library survived intact, by an employee who closed the iron doors connecting the Library to the rest of the building
awAKy TIL Hans Zimmer isolated himself for 30 days in his apartment to help him compose the soundtrack for Interstellar
KYB0E TIL that there is a chemical that is so unstable, it explodes on contact with sharp edges