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TIL the British Navy uses Britney Spears’ music to scare off Somali pirates

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6OM8 TIL the city of Dallas, Texas has lost every single one of 82 court cases against the same man, Robert Groden, over several decades.
OZY7 TIL that Roy Sullivan is the record holder for most survived lightning strikes. He was struck in a fire lookout tower, in his truck, in his front yard, in a ranger station, twice while driving away from the storm, and immediately after the seventh strike he fought off a bear with a tree branch.
5R0p TIL that an Apollo astronaut lost his wedding ring during his trip to the moon… and found it again during a spacewalk.
GA1mj TIL that humans are bad at face recognition and almost can't distinguish unknown people apart.
EgxMX TIL that scientists managed to virtually reconstruct the destroyed planetary system of the star WD 1145+017 by analysing the debris field around the star. Giving birth to the field of astronomy dedicated to studying destroyed planets known as Necroplanetology.