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TIL That “ducking and covering” during a nuclear explosion can actually save your life

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D11PY TIL that a landslide from Hawaii's Big Island could generate a tsunami estimated to be up to a kilometer in height, having generated one half a km in height 120,000 years ago
bmdp TIL Dolly Parton co-owns one of the production companies that produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
WkVQ9 TIL the only plane allowed to take off after all flights were grounded on 9/11 was carrying antivenin to a hospital. It was escorted by two fighter jets and is credited with saving the man's life.
R79lQ TIL despite newly-formed states somewhat offsetting those seceded during the US Civil War, total electoral votes Abraham Lincoln needed to win re-election shrank from 152 (out of 303) to to 118 (out of 234).
R5961 TIL that when composer Joseph Haydn died his head was stolen for study by people practicing phrenology-the pseudoscientific study of how the shape of ones skull reflects their intellect. His skull was eventual returned and interred with the rest of his body in 1954, 145 years later.