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TIL Prunes are dried plums

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R5PZj TIL that in 1859, a geomagnetic storm from a huge solar flare hit the Earth and auroras were visible around the globe. Telegraph systems in Europe and North America failed. Some telegraph equipment operated for over an hour without needing external electrical power.
l7JYa TIL The Outerbridge Crossing, the bridge connecting Staten Island, NYC with New Jersey, is named after Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge
xVZOD TIL: The Causes Behind the World becoming more Destabilised, has little to do with Race but alot to do with Bad Business.
6nKX TIL in a study of the 14 Accents of the British Isles, only 22% of people correctly identified the Cornwall Accent, compared to 95% Identification of the Scottish Highlands
GAJXJ TIL That the theoretical black dwarf star is expected to be able to live for up to 10 to the power of 32000 years, meaning that when they go supernova may make it the last transient to occur before the heat death of the universe.