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TIL: Forest fires can create lightning

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4kKlN TIL the Swansea City football ballboy that was famously ‘kicked’ by Chelsea player Eden Hazard during a match in 2013 went on to co-found the vodka brand AU Vodka
kJ8G1 TIL babies can’t be born in space yet.
5VXDD TIL The Great auk (Pinguinus impennis) was a flightless black and white birds found around the North Atlantic. As explores went south the found birds that resembled the Great auk and named them penguins too, but they are actually unrelated.
mjOy TIL: A Dutch company plans on sending 4 individuals to Mars to inhabit and reproduce on the red planet. Over 200,000 people applied. Only kicker, they can never return.
KOJLG TIL There are 5 methods to hypnotize a chicken, although not all chickens can be hypnotized. An effective way to bring them out of trance is by clapping or nudging them.