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TIL that an 1859 solar storm caused the Northern Lights/Aurora Borealis to be seen as far south as Cuba

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60MX TIL that homeless children in Miami in the 1990s developed an elaborate folk mythology that was spread by oral tradition.
J1DEm TIL Sing Sing Prison is located 30 miles up the Hudson River from New York city. This is where the expression "getting sent up the river" comes from.
GYwDQ TIL the Rotary Club is a specific humanitarian organization - not a club where people talk about their old fashioned phones
wLKBW TIL that abolitionist martyrJohn Brown was “cheerful” awaiting execution. Brown, a devout Christian recognizing the power of martyrdom, was “fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.” Emerson: “If he shall suffer. the gallows will be glorious like the cross.”
Z8PxB TIL that Whitesnake’s monster hit from 1987 “Here I Go Again” is a remake of a 1982 Whitesnake song