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

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wLJwP TIL that although Nolan Ryan holds 51 Major League Baseball records including most no-hitters thrown, most strikeouts, and the lowest batting average allowed over a career, he never won the Cy Young Award.
9n0M TIL there have been computers programmed in “ternary” instead of the conventional binary. One such computer, built by the Soviets in 1958, had distinct advantages over binary computers such as increased power efficiency, cheaper parts and easier implementation of certain operations.
VOMZ TIL Queen Elizabeth ordered an archbishop to take out a tooth of his own not once but TWICE just to prove the procedure of extracting a tooth was safe and bearable.
p5Eb TIL that the human ear can’t tell where low frequencies come from, so that is why subwoofers can be hidden in home theaters or in trunks of cars.
nWDwb TIL Juliana Buhring, with just eight months of cycling experience, became the fastest woman to cycle around the world, covering over 18,000 miles in 152 days