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TIL West Virginia has a landlocked lighthouse

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kJjdg TIL that the Mount Tambora eruption had an explosive yield of 33 gigatons of TNT, 60 times more powerful than all nuclear weapons tests combined.
jpyM TIL that in 2013, a 16-year old girl survived a plane crash, only to be run over and killed by a responding fire truck.
x6LDB TIL about Strom Thurmond filibuster. On 28 August 1957, US Senator Strom Thurmond conducted the longest speaking filibuster ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The filibuster failed to prevent the passage of the bill
8aeBZ Despite its size (10 times as wide as Earth), Saturn is the only planet in the solar system that's less dense than water. If the planet were placed on an enormous ocean, it would be able to float.
KOdd4 TIL during the making of ‘Borat,’ the police were called 92 times on Sacha Baron Cohen.