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TIL that in Belarus, a one-armed protester was arrested for violating a ban - on clapping

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xV7D1 TIL that lodestones (natural magnetic stones) are very probably made when a lightning strikes ferrite stones ; a scientist proved it by sending a small rocket containing this type of stone into a storm cloud and the stone returned magnetic
nW6nd TIL about salps, transparent marine creatures. A solitary salp reproduces asexually by budding a chain of clones that create light. A salp starts life as a female and then turns into a male.
xD6o TIL that hospitals often fly the “Donate Life” flag (just beneath the US Flag) to honor a recent organ or tissue donation. Families are also offered a flag to keep to honor their lost loved one.
8JNG TIL General Motors pays its CEO more than it pays in US taxes
QNbop TIL Zero Mostel's final performance was as a demented Slavic gull warning traumatized rabbits of an incoming storm, Keehar in Watership Down