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TIL: The May 18, 1980 Mount St Helens eruption caused the largest landslide in recorded history.

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KYyy4 TIL about Hugh Thompson, an American helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. He landed between unarmed Vietnamese civilians and American soldiers during the My Lai Massacre, ordering his crew to fire on the American troops if they shot the civilians, saving many lives.
YpAkd TIL the Danish police resisted Nazi command so fiercely that 1,960 of its 10,000 police members were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Faced with Nazi demands, the Danish police administration was inclined to accepted them, but the Police organizations refused, leading to the deportations.
EPyo TIL in 2007 The Pirate Bay attempted to buy their own country, Sealand, to attempt to gain immunity from various copyright acts.
o6M8 TIL that the shortest scientific paper ever published had zero words. A clinical psychologist Dennis Upper attempted an experiment: to combat writer’s block by writing about it. His experiment failed, but no results are results all the same, and the paper was published.
neQb9 TIL hibernation leaves animals sleep deprived. They have to routinely go out of hibernation and into "regular sleep" in order to restore their brain from the damage done by hibernating.