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TIL a father and son survived a Megatsunami (1700’ wave) by riding out the wave in their Alaskan fishing boat

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kODwg TIL Tarzan author E.R. Burroughs was the first author to attempt to license a fictional character across multi media platforms - books, comics, radio, movies, etc. Experts told him the various medias would compete against each other and fail. Instead it made him the wealthiest author in the US.
OGVxg TIL: The great Artesian Basin Australia's largest groundwater basin, laying beneath parts of the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales it spans almost 1.7 million km² (650,000 mi²) and contains around 65 million Gigalitres (17 quadrillion gallons) of ground water.
gLgW TIL There’s a dwarf village in a remote part of North Korea. It’s created to prevent ‘short people’ from reproducing.
G7G TIL Seth Rogen was only 22, at the time of shooting “The Forty Year Old Virgin”,he convincingly played a 30-something character.
69epX TIL that the iconic Rosa Parks bus photo was staged by the UPI after her victory in the Supreme Court. The man behind her is UPI reporter Nicholas Chriss.