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Highest amounts of lightning flashes occur in the far eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and Lake Maracaibo in northwestern Venezuela.

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78adZ TIL about Oliver Pollock, the man who created the US dollar sign (and went broke funding a war)
wLJJY TIL that there are only seven countries where alcohol is illegal: Afghanistan, Maldives, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen
a7gy TIL that the first man to wear a top hat was arrested for causing women to faint and creating a riot that ended up breaking a young boy’s arm.
ep6RD TIL of Chaser, a border collie whose tested memory was the highest of any non-human animal. She could identify and retrieve 1022 different toys based on name and category.
yVoxe TIL: California geothermal energy plant, The Geysers, uses treated wastewater to recharge their reservoir