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TIL Tom Morello, the front man of Rage Against the Machine, is a Harvard Graduate

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rNvd TIL That the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland were actually good for the environment, as the volcano emitted much less CO2 per day than the planes it grounded.
e0DQE TIL that modern gunpower contains it's own oxidizer for combustion, meaning you could fire a gun in space.
OxGa TIL the Richter scale is an exponential scale which uses powers of 10. Meaning an earthquake measuring 9 on the Richter scale 1,000 times stronger than one measuring 6.
Mee8B TIL prior to the advent of commercial aviation, "air-line" referred to railroads that used relatively straight and direct routes.
0d4n5 TIL only 6,800 Americans were killed in action over the course of the entire 8 years of the Revolutionary War