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TIL a 9-day seismic signal detected worldwide in 2023 was caused by a massive Greenland rockslide that created a 650-foot tsunami, with a 23-foot wave sloshing back and forth in a fjord for over a week

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P17AE TIL that the "City" of "Rancho Cucamonga" in the US State of California; is believed to be named after a ~historically "local" Native American term/phrase which implied the designation of; a "Sandy Place", a "Place of Many Springs", or, of, "The Place of the Light over the Mountain".
4XgMw TIL during the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens fouled his first two attempts at long jump, but before the final attempt his Nazi rival, Luz Long, gave him some friendly advice that helped Owens qualify and win gold
69A7w TIL There were Allied POWs in Nagasaki & Hiroshima during the bombings
xjXb TIL 17% of people 7ft tall are in the NBA right now.
5VYg8 TIL that there existed a Hitler-themed restaurant near Mumbai in 2006