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TIL Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula has the highest concentration of active (29) volcanos on Earth. Separated by only 180 kilometers (110 miles), 4 of them, Shiveluch, Bezymianny, Tolbachik, and Kizimen were all erupting simultaneously on January 11, 2013.

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Vr9Q TIL that in the mid-1980’s the Soviet KGB launched “Operation INFEKTION,” aimed at making people believe that the United States invented HIV.
9oED TIL that Bob Newhart tried defending country music fans by saying “I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do; and for the people who like country music, denigrate means ‘put down.’”
nEjo TIL Astronomers have found a mind-bogglingly large structure – so big it takes light 10 billion years to traverse
7pMO TIL that (very) rough estimates suggest that Wikipedia contains about 4% of the extant sum of all human knowledge, with 5.6 million red links (and growing).
j6Mpa TIL Chad Butler, aka the rapper Pimp C, studied classical music in school and received a Division I rating on a tenor solo at a UIL choir competition. His stepdad taught him to read music, influencing him to incorporate more musical instruments into his rap songs over the course of his career