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 * ... that glaciers on Mount Ararat (pictured) are retreating much faster than most glaciers due to climate change in Turkey?
 * ... that the Qarhan Playa's Bieletan subbasin – including the Suli, South Suli, Dabiele, and Xiaobiele salt lakes – is China's largest source of brine lithium?
 * ... that the 1766 Istanbul earthquake claimed 4,000 victims, 880 of them in the city?
 * ... that when lead miners discovered Dream Cave in Derbyshire in 1822, they found it to contain the near-complete skeleton of a woolly rhinoceros?
 * ... that along with Mount Defiance and Mount Bailey, Diamond Peak is one of the few andesitic shield volcanos in the Cascade Range?
 * ... that the lightning-caused Swan Lake fire in Alaska has burned over 160000 acre of wildland?

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