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TIL that cryovolcanoes exist!

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GAPWQ TIL Via Transilvanica hiking trail in Romania is probably the longest outdoor art exhibition in the world. The path is 1400km long and for each kilometer there is an andesite stone bollard marking the trail, each one hand-sculpted with a unique design.
4Jmo TIL after days of hiding it from the world, Soviet was forced to acknowledge the Chernobyl disaster after an engineer at a power plant 1000miles away in Sweden surprisingly noticed radiation on his shoes on his way INTO the plant. They traced the wind patterns and reported the location of the source
jNQAn TIL The year that Lord of the Rings author, J.R.R. Tolkien, died is rather unique. He died in 1973, that number may sound familiar: 1 ring to rule them all, 9 rings for men, 7 rings for the dwarves, and 3 rings for the elves!
lo8M5 TIL the bearded vulture feeds almost exclusively on bone. Bones that are too large to eat have to be dropped from the sky and shattered against rock. The process can take years to master and practiced individuals will often use one favored dropping site known as an ossuary.
9wbJX TIL that the pomelo, the largest citrus fruit, is an ancestor of several cultivated citrus species, including the bitter orange and the grapefruit.