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TIL The biggest solar storms in history was recorded in 1989. The storm was so massive that the Northern Lights could be seen in southern states like Florida

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DQx9e TIL; Before leaving the Titanic, a second officer forgot to hand over a key to the locker - which housed the ships' binoculars. The lookouts that night later said, if they had binoculars, they would have avoided the iceberg.
Y7OZv TIL a sample of rapper Biz Markie's track "A One Two" was used on The Rolling Stones song "Anybody Seen My Baby?" in 1997, making it the only Stones song to use sampling.
XEQMX TIL that Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was patterned heavily after Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" . Many of the lines Khan gives are copied or otherwise patterned after Ahab's while Khan himself obsesses over his personal white whale, the Enterprise and her captain.
KOyY4 TIL that Miss Piggy was based on the jazz singer Peggy Lee and was originally name Miss Piggy Lee. When Lee threatened to sue, Jim Henson changed the name to Miss Piggy.
Mevpm TIL the 1988 film Akira, set in 2019, not only predicted that Tokyo would win the 2020 Olympics, but also contains a scene calling for their cancellation.