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TIL a 10 year old girl saved the lives of 100 people from the 2004 tsunami. She had just learned about tsunamis in school before her family's vacation to Thailand. When she saw the warning signs she alerted her parents who then alerted a security guard who evacuated everyone to high ground.

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