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A library in Herculaneum was burned and buried in 79 AD when Mt. Vesuvius erupted. For 250+ years, scholars have been unrolling/attempting to decipher recovered manuscripts from the only antiquarian library ever recovered. The site was never fully excavated; it is assumed more are still buried.
The eruption of mount vesuvius, which decimated pompeii, occoured on 24 August AD 79, just one day after Vulcanalia, the festival of the Roman god of fire, including that from volcanoes.
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When Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, some people hid in Herculaneum's boathouses for shelter. When pyroclastic flows reached them, they were hit with a heatwave so intense that it instantly boiled and vaporized their brains, making their skulls explode
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The Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD happened the day after Volcanalia, the Roman holiday dedicated to the god of fire.
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In 79 AD, as the Emperor Vespasian neared death, he said "Vae! Puto deus fio" which can be translated to "Dammit! I think I'm becoming a god." He later died of a sudden attack of diarrhea.
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When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD it wiped out Pompeii and Herculaneum. It erupted again in 1631 and killed an estimated 4000 people. Vesuvius has erupted roughly 50 times in 2000 years.
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Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger were both witnesses to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The latter wrote detailed letters describing the events of that day, in which the former died trying to save his friends.
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Mt Vesuvius, whose eruption in AD 79 destroyed Pompeii, is still regarded as one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world because of its tendency towards explosive eruptions and the population of 3,000,000 people nearby, making it the most densely populated volcanic region in the world.
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When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, it released a hundred thousand times the thermal energy released by the Hiroshima bombing.
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In 2008, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson sued Taco Bell over an ad campaign in which it invited him to change his name for one day from 50 Cent to 79 Cent, 89 Cent, or 99 Cent, in line with pricing for some of its items, and they would donate $10,000 to the charity of his choice.
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"Natural Flavorings," aka "Castoreum" aka "beaver balls" have been used by humans since at least year AD 79, as seen in writings from Pliny the Elder.
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The infamous eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD released 100,000 times the thermal energy of the nuclear bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
