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Mount Ararat with icecap

... 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 160,000 acres (65,000 ha) of wildland?

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