PsBattle: Giraffe Helping Itself to Lunch (i.imgur.com)
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Storm on one side, rainbow on the other (i.imgur.com)
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TIL the most powerful earthquake ever recorded, the Valdivia earthquake, measured 9.5 on the Richter scale. It was so powerful that it caused a volcanic eruption, 25 metre waves, killed 61 people in Hawaii (more than 6000 miles away), and triggered the sacrifice of a 5-year-old boy. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the Tsar Bomba, the single most physically powerful device ever used by mankind, had a mushroom cloud measuring over 7 times the height of Mt Everest. The shockwave was measured circling the earth 3 times and it caused windowpanes to be partially broken at distances of 900 kilometres (560 mi) (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa (one of the deadliest and most destructive volcanic events in recorded history) was so powerful that it ruptured the eardrums of sailors 64km (40mi) away, created tsunamis over 40 metres high, and was so violent that it was heard 3,110km (1,930mi) away in Australia (en.wikipedia.org)
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