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TIL at any given time there are about 2000 thunderstorms around the globe producing approximately fifty lightning events per second.

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GXN1 TIL on August 14th, 2005 the crew of Helios Airways Flight 522 fell unconscious after cabin pressurization failed. The plane flew to its destination on autopilot and assumed a holding pattern there until a flight attendant with a commercial pilot’s license woke up and climbed into the cockpit.
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