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TIL Australia has 2 active volcanoes on Heard & McDonald Islands, one of the remotest places on earth. It is very cold, mostly barren, erupts frequently and has many wrecks around it. It has 71 species of fungi and was recently involved in legal proceedings between two entities (Australia & the UK).

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rRMPW TIL that Safety Beach near Melbourne, Australia was previously called Shark Bay due to the presence of many sharks . The name was changed in an attempt to attract tourists the area as they had previously feared swimming in a place called "Shark Bay".
BY9x TIL of the process of rubber duck debugging. A process whereby you explain your code line by line to a rubber duck in the hope of finding the fault.
5Y9Ok TIL that the character Danny Trejo plays in the Spy Kids series is canonically the same person as his character in Machete. The Spy Kids' uncle is actually a paid assassin in his own series of R-rated movies.
kO474 TIL that logo of the popular Japanese rock band, Greeeen is of a mouthful of teeth because the members are actual dentists irl. They have never shown their faces in the public and their identities are still unknown to protect their dentistry careers.
p8ENO TIL that Beate Uhse, before opening the 1st sex shop world wide, was a pilot in a German aircraft ferrying unit during WW2, flying, while occasionally being under attack, Stuka, Me 109 and even Me 262. April '45 she flew her son and his nanny on her own out of Soviet encircled Berlin to the west.