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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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xVOP0 TIL about Pumped-Storage Hydroelectricity, in which thousands of gallons of water are pumped to a reservoir at a higher elevation using off-peak electricity, then released to turn turbines and produce electricity at a later date. It's a non-chemical form of battery.
Ooab6 TIL Sara Bareilles wrote "Love Song" in response to her record label demanding that she write a "marketable love song"
d1yQ TIL that the refrain “when one door closes, another opens" is actually an Alexander Graham Bell quote which he followed by saying “but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
prAe TIL Pablo Escobar murdered a Presidential candidate/The secretary of Justice/The inspector General/various congressman/kidnapped the future president/murdered the Chief editor of the biggest Newspaper/and bankrolled an operation that ended with the death of almost all the supreme court justices
9YXAB TIL that Russian Squatting is believed to originate from prison culture, where inmates would squat in order to avoid sitting on the cold ground.