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Around 74,000 years ago, an eruption of a supervolcano on Mount Toba became one of the greatest apocalypses humanity has gone through. It was also the biggest eruption on Earth over the last 2 million years. About 50,000 years after the Toba eruption, when the Sun had finally passed through the gray clouds, and the ash settled on the ground, nature and people began to restore the previous balance. But the warm times quickly didn’t start as the Ice Age had already begun. What other scary natural disasters did our ancestors have to go experience?

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