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TIL that a bolt of lightning is four times hotter than the surface of the sun

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Ypmbx TIL That every breath we take today contains 41% more carbon dioxide than it did in 1750
69v8 TIL Stephen King was once mistaken for a vandal when he started an impromptu book signing in an Australian book store .
VM71B TIL Malcolm Myatt, a 68-year-old man is dubbed ‘Mr. Happy’ as he is no longer able to feel sadness after suffering from a stroke in 2004.
8aVkb TIL alchemists considered Mercury as a magical substance that a Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang took it as the elixir of immorality which resulted in him dying at the age of 49 and even he was buried in an underground mausoleum full of mercury thinking it's going to help him rule in the afterlife
ewnE TIL that during the Cold War, the US Army deployed Atomic Bazookas.