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La4m TIL That the solar storm of 2012 would’ve been the same strength as the Carrington Event in 1859, and if it had hit us, the damages would have been $0,6 - 2,0 trillion dollars in the US alone.
epAV5 TIL The Disaster comes the greek δυσ- (dus-) "bad"[9] and ἀστήρ meaning Bad Star. Separately it has long been thought the biggest threat to modern society is Solar Storm much like the Carrington event of 1859
7rJgZ TIL Paul McCartney managed to make an appearance on Pink Floyds' album Dark Side of the Moon. At the end of track “Eclipse”, a passage from an orchestral version of the Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride” can be heard; the song was playing in the background at the Abbey Road studio during this recording!
7rOkP TIL one of Nirvana's most controversial performances was in 1993 at the Hollywood Rock Festival in São Paulo, after playing rough versions of their songs, they swapped instruments to play a set of badly rehearsed covers while they were booed by the audience and ended the show by demolishing the gear
RpO6 TIL the character Alex, a character in South Park that appeared once, in the episode Red Man’s Greed, was voiced by Alex Glick who was the highest bidder at a charity auction to benefit AIDS research