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TIL about the Allais effect, which is an unexplained increase in gravity during solar eclipses

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Z8414 TIL there is an underground landfill fire in St. Louis that is headed towards buried radioactive waste generated by the original U.S. atomic testings - All near residential neighborhoods.
P1Jee TIL Mount Erebus is the highest active volcano in Antarctica, and the southernmost active volcano on Earth. The volcano has been active for around 1.3 million years and has a long-lived lava lake in its inner summit crater that has been present since at least the early 1970s
dLeK TIL of Patrick Combs, a man who cashed an obviously fake joke check for $95,000. The bank didn’t notice and gave him the money.
MeLV TIL mini golf was invented in 1867 because women couldn’t play ‘real golf’ because Victorian manners meant women couldn’t raise clubs over their shoulders on backswings.
KGLw TIL that a former 19th century Chinese prostitute became a pirate queen/unstoppable killer and retired with great respect and fortune.