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TIL that there are ghostly red lightning strikes 20 miles tall above thunderstorms called sprites. Long rumored, finally captured on video.

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Dr8V TIL there is a sect that wants to clone Hitler in order to bring him to justice. They also beleive that aliens created life on earth.
xVEXB TIL that when Apple began designating employee numbers, Steve Jobs was offended that Wozniak received #1 while he got #2. He believed he should be second to no one, so he took #0 instead.
d8V8Z TIL The PS2 game, Katamari Damacy, holds a US patent for "how the game maintains the roughly spherical nature of the katamari when objects are picked up".
EaBx TIL that the news reporter in Zootopia is a different animal depending on region. For example, in the US release he’s a moose, in Australia he’s a koala, in Brazil he’s a jaguar, and in Japan he’s a tanuki.
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