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TIL That there is a volcano in Ethiopia that spits blue lava
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TIL that in 1976, US Coast Guard divers suffered second-degree burns after handling sediment samples from a bayou in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley"
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TIL the cofounder of the New York Times manned a Gatling Gun to defend the paper’s headquarters during the 1863 New York draft riots
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TIL shipbuilders often place "Sacrificial Anodes", which is metal nodules made of easily-reacting metal like zinc, to "force" the Anodising corrosion to happen on these "throwaway" spots rather than on the main steel hull of the ship
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TIL that Peter Gerry, a Senator from Rhode Island, is the only U.S. Senator in American history to lose re-election and later reclaim his Senate seat from the person who had defeated him.
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TIL Nestle pays only $2.25 to bottle and sell a million liters of water