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TIL that Quakes (as in Earthquakes) don't only happen on Earth. There are Moonquakes, Venusquakes and Starquakes, which happen on neutron stars. One such starquake happened on a star 50000 Light Years away and would have been a 32 on the Richter Scale.

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