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TIL In 1986, 1.6 million tonnes of CO2 erupted from Lake Nyos in Cameroon, displacing all the air and suffocating some 1,700 people within 25 kilometers of the lake.

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8eGe4 TIL of the Erin-go-Bragh passage to Australia. Ever the witty folks, an Irish passenger nicknamed the ship the Erin go slow, as the trip took 196 days. The longest passage to Australia from the (former) UK.
mxJGx TIL our solar system is currently traveling through an interstellar cloud that is as hot as the surface of the sun and 30 light years long. It is thought to have entered the region at some point between 44000 and 150000 years ago and is expected to remain within it for another 10000 to 20000 years.
1aXn8 TIL squeezing pimples in areas of your face can get you a brain infection.
R7law TIL The Lone Ranger was so named because the character is the sole survivor of a group of six Texas Rangers.
rNRLe TIL about Borneo’s enigmatic diamond deposits and how scientists believe some of them come from the split off from Australia