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TIL Mt. Rainier is rated one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. It is on the list of the World's 16 "Decade Volcanoes", so-called due to their history of large, destructive eruptions and proximity to densely populated areas, threatening tens or hundreds of thousands of people.

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kO7dW TIL when Tay Zonday made the "Chocolate Rain" video, he was doing PhD studies at the University of Minnesota in theater history & social change. He said: "I wrote 'Chocolate Rain' as a serious social commentary, but people re-sang the song with their own lyrics, often for the sake of comedy."
p8KX8 TIL the “Death Zone” is what climbers call the highest part of Mount Everest (everything above 26,247ft). Due to its lack of oxygen, the body literally begins to die, cell by cell. This can result in health risks like impaired judgement, heart attack or stroke, and altitude sickness.
6ED0w Today I learned that trees have a maximum height of 426ft and cannot grow taller due to the opposing force of gravity.
XEGEQ TIL that Sergei Krikalev, the last Soviet Cosmonaut holds the record of most time dilation experienced by a human, having gained 22.68 seconds on his journeys to space
nv0o TIL that Dr. Eugene Lazowski saved an estimated 8000 Polish Jews from concentration camps during WWII by injecting them with Typhus to create the appearance of an epidemic, causing them to be quarantined while not actually making them ill.