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TIL: Forest fires can create lightning

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OGPk4 TIL that Darth Vader is called Svarthöfði (black head) in Icelandic and there's also a street in Reykjavik named after him
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RmZ9 TIL that apple seeds contain cyanide. Eating 20 apple cores will kill an adult, while eating less can result in paralysis, coma, and brain damage.
GYxJN TIL - Iron Man first appeared in comics in March, 1963 and fought the Viet Cong two years before the US ground war there
yjMl TIL scientists have found 1.5-billion-year-old water in a mine 1.5 miles beneath Ontario, Canada