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TIL that methane bubbles can become frozen in place in many lakes such as Lake Baikal in Russia. The ice thickness there can reach 2 m/6.5 ft during the peak of winter coldness, trapping millions of cubic feet of methane gas under the ice until Spring arrives.

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4keYX TIL that LaMarcus Thompson, the father of the American roller coaster, invented the first coasters on Coney Island because he thought the world was too sinful and needed more moral entertainment
Ypl5W TIL paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope donated his skull to science as a challenge to his archrival Othniel Charles Marsh, hoping that his brain would be measured to be bigger. Marsh did not accept the challenge.
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