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First observed solar flare 🌞


- We won’t be so prideful as to think that solar flares haven’t been happening since there was a sun, but humans didn’t notice them until September 1, 1859.


On this date, the first observed solar flare was reported by British astronomer Richard Carrington. Fun fact: It is also the most powerful solar flare ever recorded.


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⚠️ There are parts of Africa in all four hemispheres


- For people whose education was largely focused on the Western world, it may be surprising to find out exactly how huge the continent of Africa is.


For instance, it spans all four hemispheres and covers nearly 12 million square miles.


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🙈“No, thanks”.

🙈Sometimes we don’t want or need others’ help. Here are 5 ways to refuse an offer of help.

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First person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and live to tell the tale 🏔


- Annie Edson Taylor made history on October 24, 1901, when she climbed in a barrel and sailed over the edge of the Niagara Falls. She wasn’t the first person to try the barrel drop but she was the first person to survive it! It was also her 63rd birthday but she wasn’t in a celebratory mood; she stated afterward, “If it was with my dying breath, I would caution anyone against attempting the feat….


I would sooner walk up to the mouth of a cannon, knowing it was going to blow me to pieces than make another trip over the Fall.” OK, we’re convinced!


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⚠️ The cornea is one of only two parts of the human body without blood vessels


- The cornea is the clear part of the eye that covers the pupil and other parts of the eye. Cartilage and the cornea are the only types tissue in the human body that do not contain blood vessels, according to scientists at the Harvard Department of Ophthalmology’s Schepens Eye Research Institute.


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Have you ever needed to bite your tongue?

It sounds painful, doesn't it? But we don't mean physically!

It's an #idiom! People do it all the time!
Don't bite your #tongue! Tell everyone you learned it here!😉

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