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TIL Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things) is Deaf in One Ear

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699Om TIL Astronomer George Ellery Hale observed the sun in 1908 through a 60-foot solar telescope and documented the Zeeman effect in a sunspot. Hale’s photograph represented the first magnetic fields discovered outside of Earth
PYAJV TIL About Frank Foley- the “British Schindler”. An intelligence officer in Berlin before WWII, he worked as a passport officer and is credited with saving “tens of thousands” of Jews by stamping as many of their passports as he could. He also went into internment camps and hid Jews in his home.
vMrx TIL that a pizza delivery guy had a bomb collar attached to his neck and was forced to rob a bank by a gang. Shortly after robbing the bank, he was arrested and handcuffed by police, but the bomb detonated, killing him.
ne17B TIL that when Mt. Vesuvius erupted, Pompeii had a neighbor city called Herculaneum which suffered the same fate as Pompeii.
vPdMj TIL a guy dressed as Santa Claus in 1927 caused the biggest manhunt ever in Texas by robbing a bank. AND there use to be a $5k reward for civilians at the time for shooting a bank robber dead which meant over 100 people turned up to shoot Santa.