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TIL: Chile has over 1300 volcanoes putting it high on the list of countries with the biggest number of volcanoes.

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PYe7O TIL The fastest man made object ever made (at 157,078 mph) is Helios 2, a spacecraft launched in 1976, currently orbiting the Sun.
orBY TIL there is a form of therapy for adopted children which involves physically restraining the child and forcing the child to break down emotionally so that the parents can nurture the child, thus gaining its trust. It is considered by many to be pseudoscientific and child abuse.
Bg1BL TIL about Christopher Duntsch aka “Dr. Death” a Texas neurosurgeon who performed 38 operations in two years resulting in 2 deaths and 31 severely injured patients
AD104 TIL The magic of Star Wars was largely thanks to one man, Roger Christian, who spent countless hours without getting paid, constructing the worlds on screen from piles of scrapped airplanes.
Egyox TIL The inspiration for the creation of YouTube (according to co-founder Jawed Karim, the guy in "Me at the zoo") was that it was difficult to find videos online of the Janet Jackson Super Bowl halftime flash.