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TIL The U.S. Government is currently developing a gun that can fire a laser guided lightning bolt.

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MWKa TIL An explorer once found a compound, calanolide A, in certain trees in the Malaysian rainforest. Researchers found out that it has anti-HIV properties, but they couldn’t find another sample for nine years as almost all the tree of that species had been cut down for firewood and building material.
pbBN TIL that United Airlines suffered from a 10% fall of stock prices after Dave Carroll released the musicvideo “United Breaks Guitars”
8eXBX TIL Not all owls are nocturnal. Most owl species are nocturnal, only two owl species are diurnal(active in day) and some are crepuscular(active in twilight)
0d4Yp TIL Amazon India deliver Cow Dung via their site. This is for Hindu Cow Dung Burning Rituals
e94 TIL James Cameron had the idea for The Terminator from a nightmare he had about a chrome exoskeleton with red eyes chasing him.