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TIL the color Brown is really the color Orange - but darker.

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ADk6n TIL that in 1958, an earthquake created a tsunami that was the largest wave ever known. The force of the wave removed all trees and vegetation from elevations as high as 1720 feet (524 meters) above sea level.
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