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TIL The loudest known noise was created by a volcano which created sound waves that altered air pressure on earth for 5 days and ruptured the ear drums of sailors 40 miles away from the blast.

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LQdDV TIL There's a period of the history of Earth (1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago) that is called the "Boring Billion" due to nothing much happening geologically, climatically or (mostly) evolutionarily.
5YLJk TIL Space Shuttle Challenger on the mission STS-61-A in 1985 carried 8 people into space from launch to landing, making it the record for the largest crew flown on a single mission
j6jGM TIL Several African countries don’t like second-hand clothes being imported to their countries because it is destroying their local textile industry.
rPky TIL People knew that the Earth was round since the Ancient Greeks, and Columbus found difficulty getting funding because of the legitimate concern that Asia was too far away.
QZGX TIL some old folks home have fake bus stops to trick senile patients, and some even go as far as to have advertisements from 30 years ago in the bus stops!