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TIL the volcanic system beneath Yellowstone holds enough lava to fill 11 Grand Canyons.

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awQWL TIL about the remote island chain in the pacific called the Pitcairn Islands and how they have one settlement of about 50 people who are almost all decended from the mutineers of the HMS Bounty and the indiginous Tahitians the mutineers had with them.
69LgQ TIL That BOTH The Failed Videogame "CONCORD" AND The Salvage Costs For The COSTA CONCORDIA cost $400 Million...
GALWj TIL that there was a person known as Kamehameha the Great who was the conqueror and first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and he also is the namesake of Goku's signature move from anime Dragon Ball
J1Jrj TIL about Eternal September: How a 1993 AOL promotion led to year-round influxes of new users, a phenomenon that previously only occurred each September with new computer science students.
bnxZ TIL there is actually a superhero called “normalman.” He was the only person without superpowers on a planet full of superheroes.