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TIL In 1859, Richard Carrington was using his telescope to project an image of the Sun on a screen and two beads of searing white light appear across a sunspot, fading within minutes. For hours, he remained poised at the telescope in case it reappeared

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0dQJy TIL a dog survived the crash of American Airlines Flight 965, when the 757 crashed into a mountain in Buga, Columbia, killing 151 of the 155 passengers onboard.
OGgVX In 1969, Alan Funt, the creator of the television prank show Candid Camera, was on board an airplane that got hijacked. His fellow passengers recognized him and refused to believe the hijacking was real. They were finally convinced after the hijackers forced the plane to land in Cuba.
JvPj TIL Chinese during the Great Depression embraced stereotypes by adding fake opium dens to Chinatowns along with other Chinese sterotypes in order to bring in Tourist and money
ADpm4 TIL that although 20 US Presidents served in the military and most of them during war time, only President Kennedy was awarded a Purple Heart.
16W0W TIL Norman Rockwell’s “Rosie the Riveter” was inspired by Michelangelo’s “The Prophet of Isaiah”