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TIL Lightning can heat the air it passes through to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5 times hotter than the surface of the sun)

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NKb6 TIL All The American Flags on The Moon are Now White Because of The Intense UV Radiation From The Unfiltered Sunlight
QJnZ6 TIL near the end of WWI, a small fortified town in France called Le Quesnoy was liberated from the Germans after four years of occupation, by New Zealand soldiers in a sneak attack, with zero civilian casualties. Multiple memorials and many of the town's streets are named in NZ's honour.
x6oKb TIL Paul Stanley (lead singer for the rock group KISS) cannot hear out of his right ear. His ear was misshapen from a birth defect called microtia. In 1982 he had reconstructive surgery and his new ear was formed from cartilage from one of his ribs, with skin grafts put over it.
vPaaK TIL that the NYPD at one point employed an official beekeeper
5YdVn TIL that Steven Spielberg thought John Williams was joking the first time he played the JAWS theme for him.