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Question
Answer the following in a phrase or sentence.
Where had Tilly seen the sea behaving in the same strange fashion?
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Solution
Tilly had seen the sea behaving in the same strange fashion in a video of a tsunami (shown in her geography class) which had hit the Hawaiian Islands in 1946.
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