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TIL that the Mount Tambora eruption had an explosive yield of 33 gigatons of TNT, 60 times more powerful than all nuclear weapons tests combined.

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d87P8 TIL the WWE is staged - completely scripted
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ne4Pr TIL that a Lord of the Rings-type world populated by multiple hominid populations once existed.
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