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TIL Astronomer Pierre Janssen was he first to regularly use photographs to study the Sun. In 1903 he published his great "Atlas de photographies solaires", containing more than 6,000 solar pictures

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P1x8w TIL Walt Disney World in Florida offers Private VIP tours. The cost is $450 to $900 per hour, with a 7 hour minimum. Each participant must also separately purchase theme park admission.
nW7ld TIL Einstein advised Gödel not to bring up a "logical flaw" he found in the Constitution during his test for citizenship which would allow a US President to become a dictator
LkaZP TIL homophily describes the tendency of people to associate with those who look like them and have similar backgrounds. It is also related to assortative mating, the pattern of people (and other species) mating with those who look like them.
W4EB TIL of the Hague Invasion Act, that allows the US to use military force to free any US citizen held by the International Criminal Court
j5wj TIL there’s a town called Boring in Oregon, and it’s twinned with a Scottish town called Dull.