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TIL : there is an ongoing electrical storm in Venezuela ( Catatumbo lightning ) that’s been going on for years

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p84XO Today I learned that, in the 1920's, a new "fixed length" calendar with 13 months of 28 days each, was voted in by a League of Nations special committee. Although this calendar never gained widespread adoption, it remained the official calendar of the Kodak company until 1989.
jVLX TIL it is estimated over 95% of structural fires in Detroit are due to arson – fifty times the national average.
KewJ TIL that 2 men in the 1920’s ate nothing but meat for an entire year so doctors could study them … despite consuming high calories and being sedentary all their health markers stayed the same or improved
PmrG TIL that Steve Jobs wife is the largest shareholder in The Walt Disney Company. She have more shares in Disney than in Apple.
Me6BV TIL that the species of turtle that Steve Irwin discovered (elseya irwini) breathes from it’s cloaca!!... and, also, is facing extinction due to the Urannah Dam Project.