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TIL that the characterization of Jack Sparrow is based off Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards

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aMVo TIL that on April Fools Day 1974, an man hauled 70 tires into the crater of a dormant volcano in Alaska and set them on fire, terrifying nearby residents into thinking the volcano was erupting again.
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0E7v TIL minutes before the Halifax Explosion, (one of the largest non-nuclear, man-made explosions) a dispatcher named Vince Coleman returned to his station to send a warning telegram, saving 300 lives at the cost of his own.
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