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TIL that the ‘Cinnamon Challenge’ can result in a collapsed lung

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aB89 TIL the “Solar storm of 1859” was so powerful that telegraphs continued to operate after being disconnected, auroras were seen in the tropics, and miners in the Rockies thought the sun had risen early.