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TIL there is an area in Venezuela where lightning strikes 280 to 3,600 times an hour, 300 nights per year. It is called Relámpago del Catatumbo, or “the everlasting storm”.

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XEy4R TIL that since independence in 1947, Pakistan has had 22 Prime Ministers. Not one of them has served for a full term, either due to being assassinated, deposed, or forced to resign
lo00a Til accounts of post combat PTSD date back to Mesopotamia during the Assyrian dynasty (1300-609 BC). The Mesopotamians explain the disorder in terms of spirit affliction; the spirit of those enemies whom the patient had killed during battle causing the symptoms
AA8B TIL bat droppings contain numerous infectious organisms, many of which if disseminated to the brain could make you literally “bat shit crazy”.
DQ9lv TIL in 524 BC took place one of the biggest gold heists in recorded history. Sifnos was one of the wealthiest islands in ancient Greece thanks to gold and silver mines when Samian political fugitives stole 100 talents of gold from Sifnos. In today's terms, that would be worth close to $100 million!
78rgZ TIL workers in a Pennsylvania factory volunteered to live at work for 28 days straight, so they could help make protective equipment.