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TIL Being struck by lightening is rarely fatal and 90% of people survive a direct strike.

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R5ZB7 TIL in 2004, Polaroid issued a statement advising people to do not actually shake your Polaroid pictures because shaking them would ruin them, shortly after the release of the song 'Hey Ya!' by OutKast and the song's lyrics "shake it like a Polaroid picture"
xyo5 TIL an aluminium sculpture called “Fallen Astronaut” was smuggled to the moon to commemorate astronauts and cosmonauts who died for the advancement of space exploration.
x6Jrk TIL that Butthole Surfers singer Gibby Haynes lived with psychologist Timothy Leary in the 1980s, who tested various combinations of drugs on him.
6EVdJ TIL that the Japanese emperor Hirohito, who ruled during World War 2, was a passionate marine biologist and had published many papers on the topic and even discovered several new species of Hydrozoa
j6NWX TIL that Jimmy Carter's longevity is actually an outlier in his family. His father, two sisters, and brother all died between the ages of 51-63; and all to same ailment: pancreatic cancer