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TIL Stunning electric-blue flames erupt from Kawah Ijen volcano in Indonesia

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nQG9 TIL Jeopardy films 5 episodes in a day, to give the impression that a day has passed, Alex Trebek changes his suit in between shows
NXZv6 TIL that romance novels are the most popular literature genre. By 1991 46% of all US mass-market paperbacks were romance. Half of romance publisher Harlequin's customers purchased 30 novels a month. 25% of all Americans read a romance novel in 2008.
M08m TIL the largest Embassy in the world is the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. It cost $750 million to build, employs 16,000 people and costs $6 billion a year to run.
v1a9r TIL of Leo Major, a WWII French Canadian soldier who singlehandedly captured 93 German soldiers and in the following year liberated the German-occupied Dutch city of Zwolle by himself.
16588 TIL that in 1995 BMW released 120 limited edition M3's called the "Lightweight". (Of which Paul Walker owned 5) These cars shipped with extra performance parts strictly for "competition use only" with a letter stating that installing the provided parts would void your whole warranty on the car.