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TIL a Norwegian rockslide (~8000 years ago) is believed to have created a tsunami so powerful, it turned Britain from a European peninsula into an island.

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wL6W1 TIL that Tsar Bomba (most powerful explosive ever detonated by mankind; 4000x Hiroshima; 59 mi high mushroom cloud 10x height of Mt. Everest) was dropped with a parachute so the release plane could fly 28 miles away, giving the crew a 50% chance of survival...
PY0ow TIL that when he was 15, Stan Lee entered a high school essay competition held by the New York Herald Tribune, and he won for 3 straight weeks until the newspaper wrote him and asked him to let someone else win. Later, the newspaper said he should look into writing professionally
Oo95R TIL that the NFL theme song by Scott Schreer is actually a combination of two of the tracks he made in two days with the inspiration "Batman on steroids"
WkxBL TIL that in 2013 an app was created to help Icelanders avoid accidental incest.
DQnEP TIL of the Polavaram Project, a very large Earth-Cum-Rock fill dam that is nearly ready to begin construction in India