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TIL that the Australian town Lightning Ridge got its name in the 1870s, when some passers-by found the bodies of a farmer, his dog, and 200+ sheep, which had been struck dead by lightning.

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8vjV TIL Of ‘Project Thor’: a terrifying weapon system that is shockingly simple - 6 m. Tungsten rods launched from near Earth orbit, invisible to radar, could strike anywhere on earth, impact speed of Mach 10, impact equal to a tactical nuclear bomb but with no explosives.
8aQD8 TIL: Friday the 13th occurs on an average of once every 212.35 days, but the next one is 427 days away, in September of 2019, being more than double the average.
4XDB5 TIL: An adult person could die from eating 4-8 raw castor seeds because of a toxin known as Ricin which is 6000 times more poisonous than Cyanide.
Jbk8 TIL that after Truman’s presidency ended, his only income was a $112.56 monthly army pension. In response, congress passed the Former Presidents Act offering former presidents a $25,000 yearly pension.
XKKQ TIL that a new radio telescope being built in Australia and South Africa will generate so much data about space that it will exceed global internet traffic by a large margin. An exabyte per day of raw data, which could be compressed to around 10 petabytes.