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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

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xVe61 TIL since 2011, NOAA has required the use of thinner, weaker hooks, in the Gulf of Mexico, that straighten to release large bluefin tuna before they die of exhaustion on the line, which resulted in 75% less dead, discarded fish in the Gulf.
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