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TIL A coal seam in Australia is believed to have been burning for 6,000 years, making it the oldest coal fire. The site’s name is Mount Wingen but is commonly called Burning Mountain and the fire is traveling south 1m per year discoloring the ground as it goes.

by whatilearned March 21, 2023, 11:32 am

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TIL a lot of ancient Roman furniture we know about was preserved in cities buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. High temperatures carbonized the furniture rather than burning it, which left well preserved wooden objects

by whatilearned March 19, 2023, 4:45 am

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TIL there’s Wi-Fi on Mount Everest for the climbers.

by whatilearned March 7, 2023, 9:21 pm

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TIL that In April of 1815, Mount Tambora exploded in a powerful eruption that killed tens of thousands of people on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa. The following year became known as the “year without a summer” when unusually cold, wet conditions swept across Europe and North America.

by whatilearned March 7, 2023, 10:06 am

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If there was a rock and roll Mount Rushmore, who should be on it?

by QuestionGuy March 7, 2023, 2:45 am

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TIL Mount Everest is named after Sir George Everest despite him having zero connection to the mountain (he never even saw it) and against his own wishes. He objected to the naming on the grounds that “Everest” could not be easily written in Hindi nor pronounced by the local people.

by whatilearned February 4, 2023, 3:29 am

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TIL Missy, a 100lb injured dog abandoned by her owner on Mount Bierstadt in Clear Creek County as a storm closed in, found by hikers a few days later who treated her but couldn’t rescue her, they posted her location on a climbers forum and an epic rescue journey began to rescue a dog from a mountain

by whatilearned January 26, 2023, 1:46 am

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I am not sure if my friend is lying about him scaling the top of Mount Everest.

by cringeyjokesman January 10, 2023, 6:07 pm

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TIL – Dead Bodies Litter Mount Everest As Its Expensive To Bring Them Down

by whatilearned January 4, 2023, 12:13 pm

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TIL Mount Tambora had a series of violent eruptions in April of 1815, resulting in the largest eruption in recorded human history & an estimated 71,000 deaths. This led to 1816 being known as the year without a summer, resulting in the worst famine of the century when crops failed & livestock died.

by whatilearned December 21, 2022, 7:57 pm

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TIL That the world tallest mountain, Mount Everest, was raised by up to 3 inches by the Nepal earthquake of 2015!

by whatilearned December 17, 2022, 11:28 am

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TIL that the highest point in the Netherlands is Mount Scenery, located in the Caribbean.

by whatilearned December 14, 2022, 9:36 pm

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