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TIL that people on Imgur, and who post on Imgur are called "Imgurians."

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JVkV TIL George Carlin was put on the FBI watchlist for doing an impersonation of J. Edgar Hoover on “The Jackie Gleason Show”.
kJ8b4 TIL that In April of 1815, Mount Tambora exploded in a powerful eruption that killed tens of thousands of people on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa. The following year became known as the “year without a summer” when unusually cold, wet conditions swept across Europe and North America.
epa05 TIL that the Chevy Bolt has a 65kwh battery. This is equivalent to 2 gallons of gasoline at 35kwh per gallon. This shows the great energy density of gasoline and the incredible efficiency of electric motors. An electric car can go 300 miles while an ICE car can only go roughly 60 miles.
pYQde TIL that in 1961, Fidel Castro closed Cuban schools for a year and sent students from 6th grade and up, along with teachers, across the country to help others Cubans learn to read and write and It was successful. In just 8 months, Cuba's illiteracy rate dropped from around 23% to 3.9%.
epg46 TIL that the platypus is not the only egg-laying mammal. Echnidas share that unique trait.