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TIL that the Mount St. Helens eruption covered up a serial killer's double homicide.

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gMbjA TIL about the ancient art of Japanese woodworking joinery, none of which uses any nails.
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PYRrE TIL a man named Mani Manithan walked backwards for 25+ years to promote world peace
P11wg TIL that Appalachia, long portrayed as uniformly settled by the Scot-Irish and solely inhabited by poor working class Whites, has for centuries had an African American population that in some cases amounted to 25% of Appalachian inhabitants, an omission that manages to stereotype both races.
jNorQ TIL that in the mass escape of POWs from the Stalag Luft III camp which inspired the film The Great Escape, only 3 prisoners made it to safety. The two Norwegians and a Dutch man made it to Sweden and England respectively. The remaining prisoners were swiftly recaptured.