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Tonight's severely depressive fact of the universe:

The continental United States contains an enormous--possibly the biggest in the world--volcano. Eruptions of this particular volcano are believed to be responsible for the 'Little Ice Age' as well as many of North America's (and the world's) extinction events.

The volcano is still there.

It is still active.

You know it as Yellowstone National Park.

Let's be clear about this--there isn't a volcano in Yellowstone. Yellowstone is the volcano. It is 45 miles wide and 125 miles deep. When it blows it will kill everything for thousands of miles in every direction immediately and change earth's entire climate for thousands of years. It may trigger another ice age. Everybody from New York to California will die.

It goes off every 600,000 years.

The last time it went up was 650,000 years ago.

Tick tock, bitches. Tick tock.