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TIL A lightning strike can completely change someone’s personality.

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BrkVD TIL that the Habsburg ruler, Charles II of Spain, who had been born the son of an uncle-niece relationship, was described by historians as "short, lame, epileptic, senile and completely bald before 35, always on the verge of death but repeatedly baffling Christendom by continuing to live."
J1Bak TIL that it is common for astronomers to call any element heavier than Hydrogen and Helium to be a metal.
Lk90Q TIL the quote beginning "Do not pray for an easy life..." did not originate from Bruce Lee or Kennedy, rather it was from the sermons of a pastor named Phillips Brooks.
l75WN TIL that billionaires can avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes by starting companies in specific census tracts
ERVW TIL of Rupert Trimmingham, a black US Army soldier serving in WW2 who wrote a letter to the Army magazine about having to eat behind a train depot restaurant while German POWs were served inside in 1944, sparking support from other soldiers and contributing to the integration of the army in 1948.