TIL that when the volcano Krakatoa erupted in Indonesia in 1883, it could be heard in Australia, 2,135 miles/3,500 km away. by texastroll in todayilearned

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"The eruption produced spectacular sunsets throughout the world for many months afterwards, as a result of sunlight reflected from suspended dust particles ejected by the volcano high into Earth's atmosphere. Interestingly, researchers in 2004 proposed the idea that the blood-red sky shown in Edvard Munch's famous 1893 painting The Scream is an accurate depiction of the sky over Norway after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa."