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TIL of the Dead Internet Theory which states that we are being manipulated by bots

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vyJR TIL: That if the same solar flare that hit the earth in 1859 were to hit today, it would cause TRILLIONS of dollars in communication and satellite disruptions and would be the largest natural disaster of all time.
yM8v TIL the longest labour in the world was 75 days and the mother had to lie upside down the entire time.
pKAQ TIL that the 4th crusade, which intended to capture Jerusalem, never arrived at its intended target but instead took a detour and sacked Constantinople, the largest and wealthiest christian city in the world.
vPywD TIL Astronomer Pierre Janssen was he first to regularly use photographs to study the Sun. In 1903 he published his great "Atlas de photographies solaires", containing more than 6,000 solar pictures
KWyw TIL In 1977 a Chinese woman with no medical degree anonymously found a malaria cure. 38 years later, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine.