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TIL of Solar Storm of 2012. It was an event on July 23 that produced a solar outburst that was comparable to the Solar Storm of 1859, which destroyed all electrical equipment. However, this solar outburst narrowly missed Earth by 9 days; it would have cost an estimated $2.6 trillion in damages.

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woYo7 TIL close to 30 percent of apps used at work are duplicative, or add no value to the work process.
RmKQ TIL Nick Ut, the photojournalist who took the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Napalm girl” photo during the Vietnam War, put down his camera after taking the shot, rushed the girl to a hospital and forced them to treat her. The girl survived and the two have remained in touch ever since
8ew6L TIL that before she was an actress, Sissy Spacek was a singer, who, recording under the name "Rainbo," released a novelty song called "John, You Went Too Far This Time," which was a reaction to John Lennon posing naked with Yoko Ono on the cover of their "Two Virgins" album
epjw6 TIL that Philippe I, Duke of Orléans was encouraged by his mother to act and dress like a woman. She also called him “my little girl”. He continued dressing and acting like a woman as an adult and was described as “the silliest woman who ever lived". Philippe also openly took male lovers.
5aD8 TIL that Vatican’s chief astronomer, Fr. George Coyne said, “Intelligent design isn’t science even though it pretends to be. If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science.”