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TIL Ball’s Pyramid is the tallest volcanic stack in the world.

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7Plp TIL from about 950 to 1250 AD was known as the Medieval Warm Period which had temperatures of 1 °C warmer than today.
XDDk TIL that Agent Scully on The X-Files is implied on multiple occasions to be immortal
bwEp TIL Yellow Journalism is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines.
l4bG TIL that NASA had released an 18-minute Ultra HD 4K video tour of the ISS last year, showing the space station in its full high-definition glory.
d8yBB TIL of the "Miracle" at Missionary Ridge during the US Civil War, when Union soldiers, after completing an ordered assault, went on seemingly of their own volition to storm up and drive back an "impregnable" entrenched Confederate defense on a high ridge.