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TIL The largest US industrial spill was in Kingston TN. 2008 with 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash equivalent of 1.1 billion US gallons was released into the surrounding environment.

by whatilearned June 29, 2022, 5:58 am

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TIL The largest city by area in the U.S. is Sitka, Alaska (population: 8,458) which stretches over 4,815 square miles, almost four times bigger than the state of Rhode Island

by whatilearned June 23, 2022, 5:19 pm

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TIL In 1948 Ford Motor Company was offered to take over Volkswagen for free. They turned down the offer. Volkswagen is now the second largest car manufacturer in the world.

by whatilearned June 22, 2022, 2:18 pm

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TIL Waggoner Ranch, a 525,000 acre, 800 square mile ranch in North Texas, went up for sale for $725 million and sold for an undisclosed amount to billionaire Stan Kroenke in 2016, making it the largest sale amount ever offered for an American ranch.

by whatilearned June 19, 2022, 9:19 pm

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TIL in Southern Norway there’s the world’s largest underwater restaurant, with seating capacity for 100 guests, and it was also awarded one star in both the 2020/21 edition of the prestigious Michelin Guide

by whatilearned June 14, 2022, 8:15 pm

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TIL Canada’s largest city, Toronto, is smaller than 6 other North American cities. The second-largest, Montreal, is smaller than 20 other NA cities. In all, Canada has only 3 distinct urban areas with a population in the top 50, and its total population is just *11%* of the population of the U.S.

by whatilearned June 13, 2022, 3:41 pm

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TIL that Norse Paganism is the fastest growing and largest non-Christian religion in Iceland

by whatilearned June 10, 2022, 11:37 am

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TIL that New Hampshire manufactures the most firearms. In 2019, New Hampshire produced 1,221,931 firearms while Missouri the second largest producer, made 762,746 firearms.

by whatilearned June 9, 2022, 5:31 pm

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TIL that although Germany famously built several enormous cannons like the 800mm Schwerer Gustav, the United States fielded the largest caliber artillery piece of WW2, a 914mm mortar named Little David.

by whatilearned June 9, 2022, 2:26 am

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TIL that 15 mines detonated at the Battle of Messines on 7th June 1917 created what is still one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in human history. The blast created a 12-metre deep crater and was reportedly heard as far away as Dublin.

by whatilearned June 7, 2022, 11:04 pm

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TIL that Rod Stewart had such terrible stage fright during his first concert in America that he hid behind the amplifiers while singing. It took a shot of brandy to get him out. Decades later, he set the record for playing at the largest free rock concert in history, in front of 3.5 million people.

by whatilearned June 6, 2022, 5:01 pm

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TIL The current largest known thing in the universe is a black hole (Ton 618). It has a mass equal to 66 billion Suns and it’s accretion disk is one of the brightest things in the Universe.

by whatilearned June 6, 2022, 6:44 am

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