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TIL if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.

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Y7aYB TIL Monique Richard set out to be the first female to summit Canada's highest peak, Mt Logan, but needed rescue before she reached the peak. As of 2019, climbers were no longer permitted to summit Mt Logan by themselves, under any conditions.
wL6KJ TIL that Wyatt Earp, a deputy marshal in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 who took part in the famous gunfight at the OK Corral became a consultant for several cowboy movies and died in Los Angeles in 1926.
Yxv7 TIL that carbon nanotubes were found in Damascus steel swords from the Seventeenth Century
1678 TIL that the Nazi eugenics programme was heavily influenced by the American one, and that prominent American scientists praised it.
OovX TIL that if someone who knows they have HIV/AIDS has sex with someone and doesn’t tell them about their disease, they could be charged with attempted murder.