When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometres away in Australia.

Alexander Graham Bell (who invented the telephone) also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of 72.

The US Army is handing out $2,500 to Fallujah residents whose property was destroyed by US planes and artillery.

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