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TIL about the Carrington Event: in 1859 a massive solar flare spewed electrified gas and subatomic particles toward Earth, wreaking havoc on telegraph networks. Today it would stop our “modern life” for weeks.

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QJgWX TIL Receipts in Taiwan are lottery tickets. It encourages locals to ask for receipts and boost tax income.
GjgQ TIL Chumbawumba, known in the U.S. for the one-hit-wonder song Tubthumping, is an anarchist punk band with a long history of anti-fascist demonstrations and questionably-legal stunts, like smearing blood on a record label’s building.
X0OMX TIL Candice Bergen was the first female host of Saturday Night Live
mxKkM TIL about auto-antonyms, which are words that can have 2 different meanings that are the opposite of each other. (For example, the word bolt, which can mean "to secure together" or "to flee")
a89aZ TIL that red shanked Douc is a type of primate native to Indochina. It is the most colorful primate and is known as the queen of primates.