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TIL that today 60 years ago the strongest earthquake ever recorded occurred (9.5), so strong it sent a 10m tsunami wave 10,000km to Hawaii.

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Y7Mnx TIL of Mrs Chippy, a ship's cat aboard the Endurance during Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition. After Shackleton drove the ship into an ice-locked position, stranding everyone on the ice, he ordered the cat and several dogs shot because they were "weak".
kO0r7 TIL that an alligator terrorizing Chicago locals was captured and named Chance the Snapper by the local Herpetological society
9bMG TIL PornHub.com offers a $25,000 scholarship to the qualified applicant who can best answer the question, “How do you strive to make others happy?”
59bP TIL the toxic surfactant, Corexit, pumped into the gulf by the hundreds of thousands of gallons by BP after the Deepwater Horizon spill, was 52 more times toxic when in combination with oil. That is to say that the oil left alone by itself would have been less toxic and easier to clean up.
DQEXe TIL The same person was the voice for Miss Piggy, Yoda, Cookie Monster, Grover, Fozzie Bear, and Bert!