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TIL that the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake moved Japan’s main island of Honshu eastward by eight feet and dropped 400km of coastline by two feet.

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KYJgE TIL that 90% of people that are struck by lightning survive
PYQLZ Today I learned that (contrary to modern portrayals) gladiators were not lean but rather chubby, allowing them to sustain more damage in the arena and continue fighting.
wL5nY TIL Stalin once sent 6,000 people to an island now known as 'Cannibal Island'. They were given no food except flour, with no ovens to make it into bread
y7Kp TIL that the guy who wrote the first ‘On the internet, nobody knows youre a dog’ has made $50,000 USD from it.
Me8xA TIL of the longest word in Greek, a dish invented by the ancient comedian Aristophanes: Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon. Made of dogfish and pigeon.