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TIL The world standard telescope for Sun monitoring is set by a 2.4" refracting telescope at the Zurich Observatory in Switzerland. Anything larger will reveal too many sunspots that will skew the actual total

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DG1P TIL Henry Ford was an honorary Nazi and his first company later became Cadillac
j6nev TIL that Blue Monday was only written so that New Order could have an encore that played itself.
VMWlD TIL Joe Trombino was an armored truck guard who was seriously wounded in a 1983 armed robbery, was at the epicenter of the 1993 WTC bombing just hours before it went off, and eventually died on 9/11 when the first tower collapsed on him during a delivery
p88wQ TIL that ancient Egyptians were able to see if a woman was pregnant by having her urinate on barley and wheat seeds. If seeds sprouted then she was pregnant. Additionally, they believed they could determine the gender. Furthermore, this test was conducted in laboratories and was 70% accurate.
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