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TIL in 1859, an aurora was so strong over the Rocky Mountains that gold miners were woken up in the middle of the night thinking it was morning and they made breakfast.

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ADwZg TIL Liv Tyler was the product of an affair between her mom, BeBe Buell, and Steven Tyler, during a time when Buell had a live-in relationship with another musician, Todd Rundgren. Liv was born Liv Rundgren and didn't find out until she was 10 years old that Tyler was her real father.
yQg4v TIL that Lenin's body is on public display in Moscow and has been almost all the time since his death 96 years ago.
Ne61 TIL That as a child Ringo Starr had such poor health he was committed to a sanatorium for two years. When he got out at age 13, he was so far behind in school that he never went back.
gMYQ7 TIL Mosquitoes love type O blood for no good reason. -- protect yourself with a goid insect repellent!
wWbM TIL As part of grief counseling after her husband died, a woman decided to look for her infant that she had given up for adoption, only to find he had died 25 years before in the Lockerbie bombing.