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TIL The Babcock father and son team constructed the first solar magnetograph, which allowed them to measure the general magnetic field of the sun. The son, Horace Babcock, was able to discover magnetic fields in more distant stars with his own invention

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xV1n7 TIL the reason drummers have such a hard time playing exactly like Ringo Starr is because he’s a left handed drummer playing on a right handed set.
GQWG TIL Nicolas Cage was also offered the role of Neo in The Matrix, but turned it down saying that he was not mature enough as an actor.
e0bk5 TIL Chappelle Show’s The Mad Real World skit was inspired by his friend David Edward’s experience being kicked out of The Real World. The skit reversed the premise with a white guy driven crazy by black roommates and kicked out after they don’t “feel safe" — the same words used to evict Edwards.
WkeEY TIL that Kurt Gödel, an Austrian-American logician and mathematician, died of starvation when his wife was hospitalized. Gödel refused to eat food prepared by anyone else, as he was suffering from an obsessive fear of being poisoned
KOka TIL Nazi Germany disrupted the viewing of the anti-war movie “All Quiet on the Western Front” by releasing rats in theaters