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Tennessee is an active American fault line

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In this episode, we explore tennessee is an active american fault line. If you look at a standard map of the United States, the borders usually feel completely permanent. Right, like they've just always been there. Exactly, like someone just drew a neat geometric box on a piece of paper and said, you know, there it is. That is Tennessee. But we are sitting here today looking at a massive stack of Wikipedia archives covering the state's entire history all the way up to March. And it is a huge stock of records. It really is. And let me tell you, when you dig into these records, that neat little box completely dissolves. You realize you aren't looking at a quiet, settled piece of geography at all. You're looking at, well, a highly active fault line. Yeah, I mean, it is the absolute definition of a historical crash site. This is a specific plot of land  ... 
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