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TIL: About the 1998 Balleny Island earthquake, the largest recorded earthquake to strike Antarctica

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LRB0 TIL even though the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens is considered a medium sized eruption relative to other volcanic eruptions, the landslide that happened less than a second before was the largest landslide in recorded history
kJx5W TIL:Iin 2001, the eponymous 'Girl from Ipanema' (Heloísa Pinheiro) wanted to capitalize on the famous song by naming her boutique 'Garota de Ipanema', and was subsequently sued by the song's copyright holders.
Bjyb TIL in 2010 Mattel launched Computer Engineers Barbie. With the accompanying book we learned that CE Barbie needed the help of two men to code the game she was designing and they also needed to help her after she accidentally infected her and her sister Skipper’s computers with a virus.
awAN TIL an 82-year-old nun walked into a US nuclear weapons plant unnoticed, spent several hours wondering around before turning herself in.
aEpA TIL that Tom Cruise vandalized the world’s tallest building in 2010. During the filming of Mission: Impossible 4, he climbed to the top of the Burj Khalifa (without safety equipment) and etched Katie Holmes’ name into the spire.