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TIL lightning strikes are several times more likely to reach the ground in colder climates compared to the tropics

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REA8 TIL that the US now has more Spanish speakers than Spain, second only to Mexico.
mxkGP TIL that when the Japanese emperor announced Japan's surrender in WW2, his speech was too formal and vague for the general populace to understand. Many listeners were left confused and it took some people hours, some days, to understand that Japan had, in fact, surrendered.
9YEMQ TIL that when the horror/thriller movie "Scar" (the first American 3D feature film to be completed in HD 3D) was released in 2007, at one instance a man was "out cold and paramedics were actually called" and "one viewer ran out of the theater and threw up"
oR1m7 TIL in order to show off the strength of their new car's aluminum body, Chinese automaker Chery stacked seven of their eQ7 electric models on top of each other, forming a tower. Volvo had tried a similar gimmick in past demonstrations.
nWJBP TIL Edward Neumeier turned down a promotion to Vice-President at Universal Pictures so he could finish the RoboCop screenplay with Michael Miner