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TIL Scotland's national motto is essentially "F#ck around and find out."

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Y7G0Z TIL hot spots fed by mantle plumes can result in lava floods in intraplate regions. These results in much more lava (hundreds of thousands of cubic kilometers of basalt) being released than regular eruptions and create flood basalts.
1n0r TIL that Yelp manipulates user reviews to give favorable ratings to businesses that pay them ad fees, and to “punish” businesses that don’t.
9YQaQ TIL: There is a hotel in Minehead, UK called the Foxes Hotel that has an all disability staff and teaches them skills of trade for them to use when they get jobs in the real world.
e0N0k TIL that there was another kind of hidden track possible on audio CDs call a pregap/zero track. You had to rewind from track 1 to hear it.
R7D4w TIL that when Billie Holiday would perform “Strange Fruit” at gigs, the club owner would order the waiters to stop serving, and the room would be in complete darkness except for a single spotlight on her face. It would close her act and there would be no encore.