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TIL Maryland only has 2 known natural lakes
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Today I learned of dark lightning, known also as Terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF). Dark lightning discharges from storm clouds and flings antimatter into space.
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TIL: Lottie Williams is the only person to have been hit by re-entering space debris. She was walking through a park in Tulsa Oklahoma in Jan 1997 at 3:30 am and felt a tapping on her shoulder. It was a piece of the fuel tank of a Delta II rocket launched in 1996. She was unhurt.
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TIL That during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, a black bear and incorrect wiring sounded a claxon that caused nuclear armed F-106 fighters to scramble from a base in Wisconsin. It was found to be a false alarm as the planes were already rolling towards takeoff.
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TIL the guys from Workaholics Have a rap album called “Purple Magic”
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TIL that Jim Varney, of “Ernest” fame, was actually a trained Shakespearean actor, and used the Ernest movies as a way to fund that love.