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TIL in 1959, a geologist built a rock cairn 1.2 m away from a glacier and left a note, asking whoever found it to measure the distance to the glacier. When it was found in 2013, the distance had grown up to 101.5 m. For a scientist in the 1950s to predict a glacier retreating was highly unexpected.

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