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TIL ‘Coraline’ is the longest stop motion movie created.

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4XN46 TIL that there are stones called tsunami stones that dot the coastline of Japan. They read, “Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point.“
W7veX TIL Francis Bacon died of pneumonia he got after stuffing a fowl with snow to prove that the meat can be preserved frozen.
mbOx TIL that Lake Kivu is one of three lakes that undergoes limnic eruptions. These sudden releases of carbon dioxide kill every human and animal around the lake. It is estimated that the lake erupts about once every thousand years. Currently, about two million people live on the shores of Lake Kivu.
L189 TIL there is a clock being built inside a mountain that will keep time in centuries, chime every 1000 years, and last at least 10000 years.
KOo09 TIL that, if we measure the height of moutain from the center of the Earth (which is the same for everybody) and not from sea-level (which is fluctuating and sometimes, hard to calculate), the highest peak on Earth is the Chimporazo Volcano in Chile.