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TIL Lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun
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TIL: 20% of all Google searches done daily have never been done before.
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TIL that the first black man to play in Major League Baseball was Moses Fleetwood Walker (1856-1924), not Jackie Robinson.
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TIL in 2014 the President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov, banned lip syncing stating “One can see on tv old voiceless singers lip-synching their old songs. Don’t kill talent... create our new culture.” He also banned playing recorded music at all public events, on television and at weddings.
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TIL of Tore Hedin, a Swedish murderer who robbed and killed a friend in 1951. To cover his tracks, he also burned down the crime scene. As he was a local police officer, he helped investigate the crime and even answered questions about it from the national media.
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TIL that Elon already once owned X.com back in 1999 - back then, one of the first federally insured online banks