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TIL that The Volcanic Eruption of Krakatoa Indonesia On 27th August 1883 with an explosion the equivalent power of 150 million tonnes of TNT. The eruption was so loud that the sound was heard over a twelfth of the Earth’s surface, the shockwaves reverberated around the entire planet, seven times.

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7rP1x TIL After Oprah's famous "You get a car" episode, where she gave away 276 cars at a total cost of $7.6 million, many of the recipients sent in complaints to the show as they had all been charged a $6-7k "gift tax".
rQbM TIL memes mocking famous people are banned in Russia
nlJP TIL that Jack Daniels ran away at the age of 6, and learned to make whisky from a Lutheran minister.
xBRg TIL that it is still technically illegal to be a communist or support communism in the U.S.
o8eL TIL the FAA considered building a fake Havana airport in south Florida in the 1960s to address a spree of skyjackings. Many plane hijackers at the time wanted to fly to Cuba. They would have landed at the phony airport, thinking they were in Havana, then been surprised and arrested by U.S. agents.