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TIL Helium was discovered on the Sun before the Earth. It's the only element to be first discovered somewhere other than Earth.

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0wO6N TIL there is a concept for so called Solar Updraft Towers that are generating electricity from low temperature solar heat without solar panlels
epBZ4 TIL, Croissants are an Austrian invention, created after their victory over the Ottoman empire (1683), the crescent shape representing the Turkish flag. It was the Austrian emperor’s daughter Marie-Antoinette who introduced it the France.
wQa6 TIL that none of the couples from “The Bachelor” are still married.
BrPxW TIL that Harriet Tubman escaped slavery in the southerns states, then returned again and again to rescue 70 more enslaved people. Then later, after the Fugitive Slave Act was passed, she helped guide fugitives farther north into Canada. During the American Civil War she helped the Union Army.
yB4e TIL The last women accused of witchcraft in Salem, MA were finally proclaimed innocent in 2001.