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TIL in 1452/1453 a mystery eruption took place that expelled more than six times as much matter as the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. Its location remains unidentified

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m1lmx TIL Dance music reduces mosquitos drive to bite/feed and also reduces their ability to mate. Skrillex’s “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” was tested on the insects which caused females to search for a meal later and interrupted the males and females ability to find each other to mate.
X0MpX TIL There is a German founded village in Jamaica
Brjkx TIL Six Chinese men survived Titanic. Instead of being allowed to recover in the U.S. they were put on another ship and sent to Cuba but would find their way to the UK. A few married British women, had children but an anti-immigrant policy forced them to depart the country without notice.
GY4j4 TIL that the food pyramid came from Sweden
6E7WZ TIL in 1955 shortly after Charlie "Bird" Parker died, graffiti began popping up in NYC saying "Bird Lives". It was some of the earliest graffiti in New York, predating its rise by about 15 years.