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TIL that when Indonesia’s Mount Tambora erupted, humanity was swept into a period of global erratic temperatures that gave way to the name “The Year without Summer.” This also inspired Mary Shelley to write “Frankenstein.”

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b9JvN TIL If you’ve had straight hair for all of your life, your hair can grow back in curls after you’ve completed Chemotherapy.
4XEj5 TIL in 1962 the US detonated a nuke, Starfish Prime, in space to clear out Van Allen belt radiation (making Apollo missions safer) and for research. It took out part of Hawaii's electrical grid, several satellites, and made the Van Allen radiation much worse. A planned further test was cancelled.
0w6X5 TIL that 31% of India's population is vegeterian, by far the highest rate in the world. India has more vegeterians than the rest of the world put together.
rNYVW TIL that the Large Hadron Collider had so many unusual failures that noted physicists submitted papers with the notion that its operation is so abhorrent that it was being sabotaged....by someone from the future.
RxK1 TIL ‘Cheez-Its’ are actually not squares, they are considered rectangles. Two of the four sides are 2 millimeters longer than the others.