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TIL the loudest sound in recorded history came from the volcanic eruption on the Indonesian island Krakatoa.

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oBpeA TIL Crispin Glover, who played George Mcfly in Back To the Future, is 3 years younger than Michael J. Fox who played his son Marty in the film.
x60W7 TIL that in 1998, NATO translated Dr. Seuss’ “Sneetches and Other Stories” into Serbo-Croatian and planned to distribute 500,000 copies in Bosnia to teach children about tolerance. The plans were later scaled back because they did not meet NATO standards.
rND14 TIL of An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997). Due in part to negative attention for this film (which grossed under $60K on a $10M budget), the DGA retired the Alan Smithee pseudonym from regular use.
b9m50 TIL the American B83 Nuclear Bomb has been studied for use in the destruction/deterrence of asteroids on a crash course with Earth. They are 80x more powerful than the Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
KOo8w TIL A Nazi judge who's job was investigating corruption and irregularities in the SS, discovered a death camp hosting a Jewish wedding, attended by over 1,000 guests, including members of the SS.