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TIL Burning Mountain in Australia is the site of a coal fire which has been burning for 6,000 years.

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rRZYM TIL that President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed and issued executive order 9066 on February 19, 1942 which allowed the forced relocation and incarceration of more than 112,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps
DQP0j TIL an Indonesian man was killed by a saltwater crocodile while gathering for vegetables near a breeding sanctuary. In retaliation, the local village mob stormed the place killing all 292 crocodiles in revenge.
wLpo7 TIL In 1972 Jackie Kennedy Onassis was photographed while sunning herself in the nude on husband Aristotle Onassis' private Greek island by a photographer using a telescopic lens on a fishing boat. Larry Flynt purchased them for his Hustler magazine in 1975 and it launched his magazine sales.
R5Rvl TIL Jimi Hendrix was inspired to record "All Along The Watchtower" after hearing The Alan Bown play it live one night. But due to delays and their record company not thinking it would be a hit single The Alan Bown released their version after Hendrix. It became one of Hendrix's biggest hits.
R59d9 TIL author Honoré de Balzac, best known for The Human Comedy, wrote a fanfiction sequel to the Gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin