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TIL that in 1859 the most powerful recorded solar storm shocked telegraph operators through their machines and set their papers on fire.

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4kBva TIL that caste classifications were used by colonial officials in India to formulate land tax rates, as well as to frequently target some social groups as "criminal" castes and castes prone to "rebellion"
V7em TIL CERN Data Centres process over 1 petabyte of data everyday! upto 10gb a second!
N7jre TIL: Ironically, the doctrine of papal infallibility (the pope officially has singular absolute final say on matters of church doctrine) dates only to 1870, around the time when the papacy permanently lost all its remaining temporal political power.
Qy49 TIL that if you are an Australasian citizen and your passport is lost/stolen you can visit a Canadian consul for a temporary passport.
awp6y TIL that Ireland’s biggest football stadium uses Harris hawks to control the skies so seagulls won’t enter the stadium during the matches or after the clean up.