National Geographic Education

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Language & Communication Writing Systems

An Illiterate Man Invented an Entire Writing System

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Earth & Climate Geology

Earth's inner core is as hot as the Sun's surface — yet solid

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Language & Communication Languages

First part of the Oxford English Dictionary published

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Geography Countries

The National Geographic Society is founded

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Earth & Climate Geology

Mount Fuji's Last Eruption Began

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History Empires & Civilizations

The Visigoths Sacked Rome

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Earth & Climate Geology

Continents drift apart only a few centimeters a year

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Geography Borders & Maps

The International Date Line zigzags to keep countries whole

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History Empires & Civilizations

Mali's Mansa Musa gave away so much gold he wrecked Cairo's economy

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Earth & Climate Oceans

The ocean holds 97 percent of all the water on Earth

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Earth & Climate Natural Disasters

Most of the world's earthquakes strike along one Pacific horseshoe

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Earth & Climate Natural Disasters

The 1960 Valdivia earthquake is the most powerful ever recorded, at magnitude 9.5

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