contentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · edit-26 months agoTIL the 1883 eruption of Krakotoa which killed 36,417 people was so loud it was heard 4800KM away and the sound wave travelled the earth over 3 timesen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1152arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: til@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1148arrow-down1external-linkTIL the 1883 eruption of Krakotoa which killed 36,417 people was so loud it was heard 4800KM away and the sound wave travelled the earth over 3 timesen.wikipedia.orgcontentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · edit-26 months agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: til@lemmy.ca
minus-squareEmoDuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down1·edit-26 months agoIt also lead to the invention science fiction and the bicycle Edit: I’m an idiot, I confused Mt Krakatoa (eruption 1883) with Mt Tambora (eruption 1815). I sometimes just get my Indonesian super eruptions of the 19th century confused.
minus-squareApeman42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoAnd would sometimes accuse chestnuts of being lazy?
minus-squareEmoDuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·6 months agoIt did? Wikipedia lists it to have been around for way longer, even the modern style seems to predate the eruption
It also lead to the invention science fiction and the bicycle
Edit: I’m an idiot, I confused Mt Krakatoa (eruption 1883) with Mt Tambora (eruption 1815). I sometimes just get my Indonesian super eruptions of the 19th century confused.
It invented the question mark.
And would sometimes accuse chestnuts of being lazy?
It did? Wikipedia lists it to have been around for way longer, even the modern style seems to predate the eruption
Wooooosh!