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TIL that Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela has the highest frequency of lightning storms on Earth, with such storms occurring on almost half of all calendar days each year.

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9wMM TIL that Walt Disney slowed down a cartoon to 12 cycles and the viewers became sick for days
R5ZeQ TIL that by far the largest consumer of tea per capita is Turkey, with over 3 kg of tea per person per year
ADBy4 TIL Todd Rundgren did the music for Dumb and Dumber, one of the very few feature films that he did the score for.
4Jw TIL Helena Bonham Carter pays her psychotherapist-mother to read her scripts and deliver her analysis of the psychological motivation of the character Helena is to play.
v1Od7 TIL that the EU suppressed a 300-Page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales after spending 360,00 euro to have the study done.