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TIL that the giant Sequoia trees that grow famously in California are also flourishing in GERMANY!

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yVvnl TIL that a solar storm in 1859 was so powerful that it caused telegraph lines to catch fire, and people could read newspapers at night by the aurora borealis.
emXD TIL 3,200 years old tree is so massive its never been captured in a single image until now!
x6vb5 TIL: The Oregon Bottle Bill (House Bill 1036) in 1972 set bottle return deposits at $0.05, when the average cost of a bottle was $0.10. This return fee hasn't increased since it's implementation. Which means deposit fees have gone down from 50% the initial cost, to 2.5% of the cost of the product.
j6N8R TIL Before telescopes, Chinese astronomers in the Song dynasty made naked eye observations of solar phenomena during sunrises/sunsets or through clouds. It was recorded on 11 January CE 1077, in the sun were black spots as large as plums
EgxOW TIL that the list of big banks in 1988 is dominated by Japanese institutions, which captured the first 10 spots and 17 of the top 25.