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TIL that the USA uses two different networks to detect and map lightning strikes in real time through the use of radio waves emmited from the strikes.

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XEQeD TIL Aki Ross from the Final Fantasy movie was actually featured on Maxim's Hot 100, becoming the first fictional character to appear on that list
AN0lx TIL of French Neo-Socialist, Marcel Déat. In May of 1939 he wrote 'Why Die for Danzig' (Mourir pour Dantzig?) urging France to appease Hitler by surrendering to his ultimatum for Danzig. Déat would later act as a collaborator with Vichy France.
ANgd TIL there is a four man anti-poaching team permanently guarding a Northern White Rhino in Kenya
J4Wj TIL: That in 1962, a programmer omitted a single hyphen in the code for the Mariner I rocket, causing it to explode shortly after take off. This typo cost NASA the equivalent of $630 million dollars today.
yQnna TIL in the 1920s, Jordanian poet Mustafa Wahbi Tal was once arrested for displaying Bolshevik symbols, , becoming inebriated in a public bar and publicly reciting a poem that insulted the Emir, the Prime Minister, and the law