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TIL That the Statue of Liberty used to be a lighthouse

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VXR8 TIL that in the Bible, God sent two bears to murder 42 children because they had mocked a man for being bald.
e0xQD TIL Helium was first discovered on the Sun (named from the Greek word 'Helios', meaning "the Sun") through the analysis of the Sun's spectrum, and is the only element in the Periodic Table to be discovered some place other than Earth.
nWdlB Today I learned that there is a hidden photo of a chihuahua on every Samsung phone.
Zrmv TIL in 2014 a man maced a Gamestop employee because Sonic the Hedgehog’s arms were blue rather than flesh coloured in Sonic Boom
e0XZn TIL that the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkov, urinated on a tire of the bus that took her to the launch site. This remarkable woman was only 26 years old, a former textile factory worker, and was in space a full two decades before the first U.S. woman was.