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TIL Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice during lift off.

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9Y4Q7 TIL about the ghost village Epecuén (Argentina) and it's sole inhabitant, Pablo Novak. The once touristic town became uninhabitable after a flood slowly consumed it in 1985. The waters began to recede in 2009 and Novak (now 90 years old) returned to the home of his youth to live alone with his dogs.
M7V1K TIL all black holes emit radiation and, if they don’t consume enough matter, eventually evaporate and disappear
kjO4 TIL that if you have excess skin after dramatic weight loss, you can actually donate the skin, which is removed via surgery, to burn victims
jNQav TIL that in 1939, the US army was ranked nineteenth in size in the world, behind Portugal and only slightly ahead of Bulgaria. Its equipment was obsolete, and it relied heavily on horses
VBVrm TIL a week before Eminem's album The Eminem Show (2002) was released, it was the second-most played CD on computers, the highest ranking ever for an unreleased title.