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TIL Plants aren't silent. They make clicking sounds like popcorn inaudible to humans that change under stress

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5V5aB TIL the 2004 earthquake/tsunami caused a 1,500m high ridge along the fault to collapse, generating landslides. One landslide consisted of a single block of rock some 100m high and 2 km long. The momentum of the water also dragged massive slabs of rock, each weighing millions of tons, as far as 10km.
QJrjM TIL that in Ireland you cant own a lake or river but by owning the land on both sides you can own the bed and the airspace above and completely control access to it
aV00 TIL that there is a company called Holy Smokes that will take your cremated ashes and put them into bullets.
yDlX TIL that in 1781 a slave ship threw 133 slaves overboard to make an insurance claim for them as cargo.
VBRWQ TIL the distance between Earth and the Moon is so great, you could fit all other planets in the solar system between them