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TIL that 1816 is known as the “Year Without a Summer,” due to the eruption of Mount Tambora, the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history.

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ga9b TIL Brazil is the first country in the world to totally ban indoor tanning for anyone of any age.
ANpo4 TIL that the Great Pyramid of Giza held the title for the world's tallest structure for an astonishing 3600 years, spanning from 2600 BC to 1300 AD. It also retained its position as the tallest structure in Egypt until the year 1961.
691WY TIL that in a 25 year Christmas tradition, two Minnesota brothers-in-law regifted a pair of moleskin pants to one another gift wrapped in, among other things a 600 lb. welded safe, a crushed car, an 8ft. diameter concrete filled tire, a six ton x 17 ft. long rocket and a four ton Rubic's cube.
1aNQX TIL that Pluto is so cold that it's covered in frozen Nitrogen ice. About 800,000 years ago, it may have been warm enough to have liquid Nitrogen flowing across its surface in lakes and rivers.
16MgX TIL North Korea actually dropped communism from their constitution in 2009