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Helium was first discovered in the sun before it was found on Earth.

Why it is true

Astronomers detected an unknown spectral line in sunlight during an eclipse in eighteen sixty-eight, naming the new element "helium" from the Greek word for sun, before it was isolated on Earth in eighteen ninety-five.

Source: Astronomy

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