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TIL Patton's solution to Hawaiian lava flows in the 40s-50s was to bomb them

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a11A TIL that Howie Hubler, a Morgan Stanley bond trader, is responsible for the biggest loss on a trade in history: $9 billion in 2007 during the housing market collapse. He was given the option to resign instead of being fired in October 2007, receiving $10 million in back pay upon his departure.
6EdlZ TIL that in 1974 Jimmy Carter gave an alumni speech at the University of Georgia Law School. Instead of honoring the alumni, he delivered a speech attacking the injustice in the judicial system so mercilessly that Hunter S. Thompson later named him as one of the three meanest people on Earth.
pYQ4N TIL: The Great Chinese Famine was caused when terrified civil servants inflated figures to avoid punishment from the supreme leaders. Estimated deaths: 15 to 45 million.
a8djJ TIL Tracy Chapman's musical career took off following her appearance at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concerts in 1988. Following the second concert, her already successful album, "Tracy Chapman", went from 250,000 copies sold to over 2 millions.
Qwp9 TIL that on February 28, 1854 in a little white schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, roughly 30 antislavery men coined the term “Republican Party” to oppose the Kansas-Nebraska act.