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TIL About solar prominences, massive plasma structures on the surface of the sun that may persists for days or even weeks.

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e0xEb TIL "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" was written in 1979 by Robert Hazard. It was written from a male's perspective. In 1983, Cyndi Lauper recorded a version of the song, ironically turning a misogynistic song into one of the most well-known feminist anthems.
rQlw TIL when Sun Ra played a gig at a mental hospital, it prompted a patient to talk for the first time in years. The patient walked directly to his piano, and said ‘Do you call that music?’
4k9Bw TIL: Miami, Florida's Government Center metro station has a "ghost platform" for an East-West Metrorail line that was never built.
wLyoE TIL Cloacina was the Roman goddess of sewers a poem to her is attributed to Lord Byron, "O Cloacina, Goddess of this place, Look on thy suppliants with a smiling face. Soft, yet cohesive let their offerings flow, Not rashly swift nor insolently slow."
wLe81 TIL that it is a tradition in Japan to create rabbits out of snow that is called Yukiusagi, they use berries or red food dye for the eyes and bamboo leaves for the ears