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TIL the 1783 Laki eruption in Iceland killed over half the country's livestock and at least one-fifth of its people, then lowered global temperatures enough to cause crop failures across Europe.

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u/RuseOwl — 2 months ago
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TIL that the New River, which flows through North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, is geologically one of the oldest rivers on Earth despite being called the "New" River.

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u/RuseOwl — 2 months ago
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TIL an outlaw killed in 1911 had his mummified body displayed at carnivals and funhouses for 65 years before anyone realized what it was, and it was only discovered to be a real human corpse in 1976 when a Six Million Dollar Man film crew member's tried to move it and its arm snapped off.

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u/RuseOwl — 2 months ago
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TIL a cargo ship called the SS Baychimo was abandoned in the Arctic ice off Alaska in 1931 after its crew assumed it would sink, but never did, and it kept getting spotted drifting unmanned across the arctic for the next 38 years, with its final confirmed sighting in 1969

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u/RuseOwl — 2 months ago
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TIL one of North America's largest known earthquakes, a magnitude 8.7-9.2 megathrust quake that struck the Cascadia Subduction Zone in 1700, went unrecorded, but its exact date was determined nearly 300 years later using Japanese records of a mysterious tsunami with no apparent source

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u/RuseOwl — 3 months ago
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TIL the world's largest rotating and revolving globe is located in Yarmouth, Maine, where a 41-foot-wide model of Earth completes a simulated day-night cycle every 18 minutes.

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u/KingsElite — 3 months ago