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TIL that the most powerful earthquake ever recorded caused a tsunami that traveled the whole length of the Pacific ocean, from Chile to Japan, in less than a day and was still strong enough at arrival that it caused casualties.

by whatilearned February 14, 2023, 6:04 pm

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TIL the Pacific island nation of Nauru has been so damaged by phosphate mining that in 1964 Australia offered to repopulate the entire nation to Curtis Island near the Australian Coast. Nauru refused the offer in order to maintain their sovereignty and not become part of Australia.

by whatilearned February 11, 2023, 1:44 am

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TIL : Environmental activist Julia “Butterfly” Hill lived in a 1500 year old California redwood tree (known as Luna) 180 feet (55 mm) off the ground for 738 days in order to prevent it from being chopped down by Pacific Lumber Company. She successfully saved the tree.

by whatilearned February 9, 2023, 4:20 am

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TIL NASA plans to retire the International Space Station by 2031 by crashing it into the Pacific Ocean

by whatilearned January 30, 2023, 2:18 am

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TIL that Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 crashed due to an explosion that has yet to be solved after 57 years. All 52 passengers and crew members died.

by whatilearned January 29, 2023, 2:57 am

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When I used to live on a Pacific island, Barry Gibb used to be my window cleaner and always scared the life out of me.

by cringeyjokesman January 21, 2023, 11:48 am

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TIL that a 1981 plane crash killed fifteen of the Soviet Union’s highest ranked admirals in the Pacific Fleet. The crash is believed to have been caused by the admirals overloading the already unstable plane with personal goods and threatening any flight crew that tried to stop them.

by whatilearned January 17, 2023, 4:00 pm

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TIL about the tiny isolated Pacific Island of Rotuma. It is 400 miles from the rest of Fiji and has its own linguistic heritage. About 1,600 people there.

by whatilearned January 11, 2023, 6:00 am

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TIL that during WWII a pilot named J. Hunter Reinberg wanted to make ice cream for his men in the Pacific Theater. So he flew to 33,000 ft and came back down with gallons of chocolate ice cream.

by whatilearned January 8, 2023, 3:07 am

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TIL in 1613, a Japanese daimyo sent an embassy to Rome, crossing both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and visiting the Philippines, Mexico, and Spain along the way

by whatilearned December 25, 2022, 11:56 pm

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TIL about L-8, a Navy blimp whose crew mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific in 1942, before crashing into a suburb of San Francisco. L-8 was repaired and later became the Goodyear blimp.

by whatilearned November 30, 2022, 5:31 am

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TIL the small Pacific island of Niue uses legal tender coins which depict characters from Disney, Pokémon, Peanuts, Star Wars, and more.

by whatilearned November 29, 2022, 3:15 pm

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