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TIL about the Tunguska event, an asteroid 'impact' that took place in Siberia in 1908. Early estimates suggested that upwards 15 MT of energy were released, but there were no confirmed fatalities.

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nemrG Climate change has not been kind to Antarctica. According to a comprehensive new study, global warming has already bled the frigid continent, which is larger than Europe, of about 2.7 trillion tons of ice. This enormous amount of ice has already raised global sea levels by as much as a centimeter.
1N8d TIL the universe is bigger than it is old. The universe (93 billion light-years in diameter) is much larger than the distance light could traveled during 13.8 billion years since the big bang.
GYog5 TIL the word 'anecdoche', a conversation in which everyone is talking but nobody is listening.
BpaL TIL that at the end of WWII, Canada had the 4th largest air force and 3rd largest navy
NEA6 TIL that the “power up mushroom” sound from Super Mario Bros. is essentially the same as the “flagpole” song but condensed into 1 second.