p_hinman3rd comments on TIL that in 1902 a volcanic eruption flattened an entire city, killing everyone but two people. One was a prisoner who only survived because he'd stabbed a policeman and had been put into solitary confinement. He was horribly burned, was pardoned of his crimes and became a circus attraction.

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