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TIL about the chatelaine - an 1800s women accesory which was a customisable swiss army type collection of useful objects that hung on your waist

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yQWe TIl that Krakatoa’s eruption, alongside being the loudest sound ever heard, was 13,000 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, and killed approximately 36,000 people.
6EA6l TIL that top American businessmen plotted to overthrow FDR and install a fascist dictatorship
6LEQ TIL a 5 year old child was sacrificed in Chile after the largest earthquake ever recorded. The two charged were released after 2 years, as the judge ruled they “acted without free will, driven by an irresistible natural force of ancestral tradition.”
7GAx TIL that the area that is now the Mediterranean Sea was once dry, but about 5 million years ago the Atlantic Ocean poured through the Strait of Gibraltar at a rate 1000 times that of the Amazon, filling the Mediterranean Sea in about 2 years.
wobp1 TIL "Weird Al" Yankovic never got permissions from Prince to record parodies of his songs. Once, before the American Music Awards where he and Prince were assigned to sit in the same row, he got a telegram from Prince's management company, demanding he not even make eye contact with the artist.