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TIL that there is so much heavy metal pollution around the Russian city of Norilsk, mining the surface soil has become economically feasible.

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78nkx TIL Red Wave was the first Soviet rock album released in the West. The album was released in 1986 and was made up of songs from underground rock groups and had to be smuggled out of the country to the record producer.
KYN6G TIL that if you were to light your farts on fire, an act called pyroflatulance, the resulting flame would be predominantly blue, as hydrogen and methane, the predominant flammable gasses in farts, burn blue.
v1OaK TIL the cost of an oil change for a Bugatti Veyron is $20,000.
ADr5a TIL that all but 6 US Presidents have English heritage
AOnn TIL there is literally no evidence that cell phones interfere with planes. The ban was based on this isolated incident.