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TIL that a MASSIVE solar storm just barely missed Earth in 2012. Power grids all over the world would have been catastrophically compromised & so would the lives of the entire population.

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5QLr TIL that Matt Cvetic, a Pittsburgh steel mill worker, was hired by the FBI to infiltrate the Communist party for nine years. His cover was so good that even his own family didn’t know he was undercover and despised him for his beliefs.
ElvV TIL Cameron Lyle, a college senior track and field athlete was awarded the NCAA’s Award of Valor in 2013 for ending his collegiate career one month early, ending his chances for a gold medal, in order to be a bone marrow donor to a 28 year old father with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
QJQ0k TIL Cone snail venom contains weaponized insulin. The insulin forms part of a poison mixture evocatively known as “nirvana cabal”. It allows the snail to disable entire schools of swimming fish by sending them into “hypoglycaemic shock”, a condition brought on by plummeting blood sugar levels.
OG891 TIL the Chicago Cubs used the nickname White Stockings first before the Chicago White Sox took the name in 1893.
RE77 TIL if you receive a blood transfusion with the wrong blood type, a very strong feeling that something bad is about to happen will occur within a few minutes.