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TIL that in 2000 a Nasa plane accidentally flew over Mount Hekla, A.K.A the Gateway to Hell in Iceland, resulting in the first ever directly recorded plume measurements of sulfur dioxide and temperature readings taken from an actively erupting volcano.

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Dr5v TIL there are an estimated 50,000 undocumented Irish in the US
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