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TIL that Mt. Fuji should have erupted two years ago, and will likely erupt by 2015.

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QJnPL TIL of Sadi Carnot (father of thermodynamics) who replaced the previously long-lived idea that heat was a substance by the conception of heat as a quantitative property
0drgv TIL that on average, drivers in the US spend about $20 billion a year in overpaying for parking spots and 17 hours every year is spent by each driver searching for one.
M71MA TIL media reporting of suicides is carefully regulated as it can trigger more suicides. For example, in Taiwan, reports of charcoal-burning suicides were associated with a 16% increase in suicides by the same method the following day with no corresponding decrease in other methods of suicide.