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TIL Lightning can trigger nuclear reactions. The energy from a lightning bolt can create isotopes like carbon-14 in the atmosphere

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DDxe TIL: Real life castaway drifted into the Pacific Ocean for 13 months surviving off rainwater, fish, and sea turtles. Several large ships saw him but refused to help him. He eventually drifted to land.
MegDm TIL that 150 people die each year from falling coconuts, compared to 5 a year from shark attacks. One newspaper in Australia dubbed coconuts "the killer fruit."
9YAom TIL Ray J continues to make $90,000 every 3 months from his sex tape with Kim Kardashian. It is the biggest selling sex tape ever, a title that was previously held by Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sex tape.
x9Bo TIL in 1986 Glasgow renamed the street of the Apartheid controlled South African consulate to Nelson Mandela Place which meant all of their correspondence had to contain the name of the political prisoner.
wLJ6M TIL of Sarah Jones, a camera assistant who was killed in a train accident on set of Midnight Rider, due to unsafe decisions made by the director and producer. Later a movement emerged, and movie crews from around the world put her name on slates, as a tribute and a pledge to always stay safe on set