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TIL heat lighting isn’t real. It’s just lightning too far off in the distance to hear the accompanying thunder in a storm.

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Z6pp TIL Google will fight to keep sites like The Pirate Bay available in the USA.
x6Oag Til that In engineering, master–slave is a relationship between two systems in which one controls the other. In some cases one master controls just one slave system, but in others there are multiple slave systems controlled by the same master.
VMdYk TIL There is a large pipe embedded in the ice in Antarctica that allows you to see under the ice without getting wet.
DwQv TIL Monowi, Nebraska has a population of 1. The mayor pays herself taxes and grants herself a liquor license.
9YaRp TIL in Ancient Egypt, cats were bred not as pets, but for ritual mummification. Puppy farms and other animal breeding programmes were a huge industry that provided a stock of animals to be killed and mummified as an offering to the gods and to keep the dead company