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TIL about Onfim, a boy from 13th century Novgorod whose homework and drawings have been preserved by time

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07Zy TIL Napoleon Bonaparte has a living heir
8eejG TIL Jesuit priest Angelo Secchi was a pioneer in astrophysics. He was the first to make systematic use of spectroscopy in stellar classification and proved that solar prominences viewed during an eclipse are features belonging to the Sun
yVBjp TIL that a cyanometer is an instrument used to measure the intensity of blue in the sky
nYdo TIL… In 1954 the CIA deposed a democratically elected Guatemalan president and replaced him with a dictator to save investments in a banana company.
78Akp TIL In 1964 a criticality accident in Rhode Island at a nuclear facility resulted in the largest single full body dose of radiation in history, the equivalent of 700,000 X-rays at once | The victim died 49 hours later