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OCR: More Little Known Facts! * In 1946 Hawaii had people and houses washed out to sea by a Tsunami. The tsunami is a catastrophic ocean wave caused by an earthquake under- water. The earthquake that caused this tsunami happened five hours before hitting Hawaii in Aleutians, some 2,300 miles away. * The German ship Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed in the Baltic Sea. It made the loss of lives on the Titanic look small - 8,000 people drowned. * During the ice age, nearly 30% of the land on earth was covered with a thick layer of ice. * To make a pound of honey a bee must collect nectar from 2 million flowers * There are, according to the U. S. government, 28,000 different types of diets. The oldest diet is fasting. * In 1615, William Baffin went within 800 miles of the North Pole - it was 250 years ...