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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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8aN7b TIL Just 15 million years after the big bang the entire universe was effectively "habitable" as the cosmic microwave background radiation was warm enough to support liquid water everywhere. This period lasted for about 7 million years.
0wKnM TIL There is an abandoned Apache 160 airplane in a skatepark in Detroit. According to its registration number, it was registered in 2019, but has been sitting abandoned since at least May 2020 when it was found by a documentary maker.
XEodk TIL For years an elderly Brazilian woman prayed to what she thought was a figurine of St. Anthony until she found out it was actually a figure of Elrond from Lord of the Rings
7rkwP TIL: King Zog I of Albania, had 600 blood feuds; survived 55 assassination attempts, had shot back at his assassins; smoked 200 cigarettes a day; escaped from France with help from Ian Fleming.
9wWJr TIL about Jemima Nicholas, a Welsh woman who thwarted the French invasion of Britain in 1797 by leading a dozen women with pitchforks against the 1400 French troops. She captured 12 troops and locked them in a church, the French surrendered after 3 days