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TIL Quentin Tarantino directed two episodes of CSI.

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neOa9 TIL that in 2000 a Nasa plane accidentally flew over Mount Hekla, A.K.A the Gateway to Hell in Iceland, resulting in the first ever directly recorded plume measurements of sulfur dioxide and temperature readings taken from an actively erupting volcano.
WPBo TIL barber Poles are are a legacy of the barber-surgeons’ practice of bloodletting. The red represented the blood, the white the bandages, and the blue the protruding veins. This double job was legal until 1745.
Mk97 TIL the Mystery Flavor of Dum Dums lollipops is a mixture of two flavors from when end of one batch of candy meets the beginning of the next batch. So the Mystery Flavor continuously changes.
eY6L TIL despite being divisible by 4, the year 2100 won’t be a leap year, this happens every century if the year is not divisible by 400
vPkGj TIL Bob Gunton (the warden in "The Shawshank Redemption") was one of the body doubles for the late Harold Ramis as Egon in "Ghostbusters: Afterlife".