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TIL in 1902 a man named Ludger Sylbaris survived a volcanic eruption that killed 30,000 people because he was drunk and arrested the night before. Held in a windowless cell he stopped the superheated shockwave from vaporizing the air inside by peeing on his clothes and stuffing them in the door slit

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b9bOj TIL that due to a rare condition, a simple Hickey can turn into a deadly stroke, a 17-year-old die getting a hickey from his girlfriend.
loVb1 TIL Bones produce piezoelectricity when stress is applied and forms electrical dipoles that attract osteoblasts. Osteoblasts deposit calcium and other minerals on the part of the bone that is stressed which increases the density of the bone.
KOW8B TIL Some ants will do anything for sex! In this clip from "Natural World: Ant Attack" this ant pulls his own wing off to mate with a queen!
4kNr5 TIL that there is a nonprofit called the Astrosexological Research Institute studying sex in space
4X0lR TIL of the Westall UFO encounter, which occurred on 6 April 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, where more than 200 students and teachers saw a UFO in broad daylight.