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TIL the sound of Krakatoa erupting was so loud that it circled the Earth FOUR times.

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pY4G TIL for the first time in 24 years, climate change wasn’t even mentioned once in any of the three presidential debates
BXgK TIL that as an unintended side effect of the Korean Demilitarized Zone, a human free nature preserve has been created that is now acting as a valuable habitat to many endangered species, such as the Korean Tiger and Red Crowned Crane.
D1nkV TIL that during the 2016 Dallas police shooting, officers used an bomb disposal robot armed with C4 to kill the shooter, which is the first time in history American police have delivered lethal force via a unmanned vehicle.
x6aQ0 TIL that the Convair Model 118, a tentative flying car from 1947, was shelved because its prototype crashed when a test pilot mixed up the flight engine's fuel gauge with the road engine's and didn't see the former run out. While he survived, this killed interest in the project.
e0wnL TIL that the inventor of Vaseline believed in the medicinal properties of the product he ate a spoonful of it everyday. He lived to be 96.