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Today I learned about Muyake events which are shifts in measured radioactive isotopes found on earth -likely caused by massive discharges of solar energy or gamma ray bursts

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6EZXl TIL of the Social Gospel: an early 20th century Christian movement dedicated to unionization, homing everyone, feeding the poor, solving economic inequality, and social justice. They believed the second coming couldn't happen until humans solved these problems.
kOE0E TIL there are at least 66 different names for eggs that are fried in a hole in toast (egg in a basket).
KX46 TIL that Bill Murray did NOT actually shred the Ghostbusters 3 script, and he remains good friends with Dan Aykroyd
X0Ej6 TIL that after the tragic suicide of socialite Dorothy Hale, Frida Kahlo was commissioned by Hale's friend, Clare Booth Luce, to paint a likeness of Hale in remembrance. Instead of a beautiful portrait, however, Kahlo painted a sequence of Hale leaping to her death from her 16th story apartment.
Vpnm TIL The Netherlands has been sending Canada 10,000 tulips every year for the past 70 years in appreciation for the liberation of the Netherlands from Nazi forces.