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• [Nature fact 1] The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonseia led to an unreasonably cool summer in 1816, which led to an 800% rise in oat prices, which led a German inventor to create the predecessor to what we now call a bicycle.

  Disaster, Naturesource

• [Nature fact 2] US Park Ranger Roy Sullivan holds the record for most survived lightning strikes. He was struck 7 times by lightning during his lifetime. He was struck once while operating a truck, once inside a ranger station, on two separate occasions after running/driving away from the storm, and immediately after the seventh strike he had to fight off a trout-stealing bear with a tree branch. He claimed that this was the 22nd time he had hit a bear with a stick in his lifetime.

  Badass, Naturesource

• [Nature fact 3] Around 2.5 billion years ago, the Oxygen Catastrophe occurred, where the first microbes producing oxygen using photosynthesis created so much free oxygen that it wiped out most organisms on the planet because they were used to living in minimal oxygenated conditions

  Disaster, Naturesource

• [Nature fact 4] The land in Finland is rising faster in the coastline than further East, causing rivers to tilt and flood towns, since the rivers flow from the east to the coast.

  Countries, Naturesource

• [Nature fact 5] The Lake Karachay in Russia was long used as a radioactive waste dump, and it is one of the most polluted places on the planet. Standing on its shore for just an hour would give you a lethal dose of radiation.

  Environment, Naturesource

• [Nature fact 6] The original height of Mount Everest "was calculated to be exactly 29,000 feet (8,839.2 meters) high, but was publicly declared to be 29,002 feet (8,839.8 meters) in order to avoid the impression that an exact height of 29,000 feet (8,839.2 meters) was nothing more than a rounded estimate."

  Nature, Placessource

• [Nature fact 7] New York City is one of four major cities in the United States whose drinking water is pure enough not to require purification by water treatment plants. The city is supplied with drinking water by the protected Catskill Mountains watershed.

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• [Nature fact 8] There are thought to be 100,000 uncharted mountains under the sea.

  Nature, Placessource

• [Nature fact 9] Microbeads used in exfoliating soaps are actually made of plastic (and they are a major pollution problem).

  Environment, Naturesource

• [Nature fact 10] Macaya National Park contains Haiti’s last primary forest and is a global biodiversity hotspot, containing endemic species of orchids, mammals, and the largest concentration of endemic amphibians in the world.

  Animals, Naturesource

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