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TIL there is a Volcano in Indonesia which spews electric blue lava.

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vP8yL TIL the only scientific paper ever published by Bill Gates was a possible solution to a mathematical problem about pancake flipping.
Y6lW TIL of a former policeman who rewrote the fine print on his credit card contract to include unlimited credit and no interest, and got the bank to sign on it. The bank claimed they didn’t read the contract but the court held that the amended contract to be legally binding and he won the case.
1alO7 TIL A scientist embedded LEDs in a prop prosthetic arm to demonstrate an electric eel attack. Each flash in the video represents the firing of the nerves in a potential predator. In each of the volleys at 600 volts, there are 200 pulses per second, a very good rate for causing pain.
9YavM TIL the voice acting in the original Resident Evil was so bad because the English actors had no idea of the context of their lines and the Japanese devs picked whatever take sounded the best to them.
XEbYE TIL that some plants caffeinate their nectar because it helps bees remember where they are