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TIL scientists believe the “Spokane Flood” was the largest ever megaflood to occur on our planet and would have drowned a 40-storey building. The waterfall it created carried 10 times the water of all modern rivers combined.

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gMrlb TIL Diehard Star Trek Fans Ranked Galaxy Quest the 7th Best Star Trek film
ABZl TIL: Walmart uses 22 shell companies to avoid paying taxes.
mxPkx TIL that Johnny Carson caused a nationwide toilet paper shortage in 1973 by claiming on national TV that there was a toilet paper shortage.
mxPYE TIL there is a $500m fund for global pandemics that expires July 15 2020. Investors make profit if there is no official Pandemic announced before they expire.
7b0x TIL that Tom Hanks is an avid support of NASA’s manned space programs and originally wanted to be an astronaut, but “didn’t have the math”. He was awarded the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award in 2006 for his contributions to raising public awareness of space programs.