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TIL that Lightning bolts prefer to take the path that an aircraft or rocket previously took.

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V9op TIL Diesel and House Heating Oil are the same fuel. The difference is Heating Oil is dyed red and does not have a road tax applied to it making it cheaper. You can use it in off road machinery but it is illegal to use in a truck or car utilizing public roadways.
p8n1p TIL that in 2008 Anonymous launched the project Chanology, sending endless loops of black pages to the Scientology church's fax machines to waste ink.
GYy6E TIL of Gregor MacGregor, a 19th century conman who sold land in a fictional South American country and then sold tickets on a ship to the fictional country. 200 people arrived in the jungle of Nicaragua and most of them died soon after
Zpe8D TIL Around 400 BC Laozi wrote 81 verses on how to live in the world with goodness and integrity. The Tao Te Ching influenced many Western writers, including Aleister Crowley and Ursula Le Guin, through more than 100 versions of the text
VMl00 TIL that Peter the Great of Russia was 6'8" (203cm) in a time when the average Russian man was about 5'3" (163cm) tall