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TIL that the Mount Tambora eruption had an explosive yield of 33 gigatons of TNT, 60 times more powerful than all nuclear weapons tests combined.

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6E5d7 TIL Rush Limbaugh avoided the the Vietnam draft due to an anal cyst.
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8B4a TIL autistic savant Daniel Tammet learned Icelandic in just one week, and then went through a live interview on national TV in the language
OonLX TIL Mel Ignatow was acquitted of the murder of his girlfriend... selling his house to fund his defense. However, photos of him actually comitting the murder were found inside the house, but due to double-jeapordy laws, he couldn't be tried again
PLRn TIL That the man who wrote the classics, ‘The Count of Monte Christo’ and 'The three Musketeers’, Alexandre Dumas, was Black.