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TIL that standing underneath a tree during a storm is the second leading cause of lightning strike deaths

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KYlgw TIL, In 2010, 80yr old María de Jesus suffered a heart attack and was pronounced dead at a LA morgue. Days later, morticians returned to pull her body for the funeral & found an unzipped bodybag and a corpse with bruises. It was determined that she tried to escape, broke her nose & froze to death
eMYb TIL John Cena replaced Fred Flintstone on 4 million Fruity Pebbles cereal boxes because Dwayne Johnson called him a “Fruity Pebbles” eater in the ring.
Wk9od TIL that in Uber's 2018 fatal self-driving car accident the system mis-identified the pedestrian and didn't act to avoid the accident. The car's emergency braking system could have acted at the last second, but that system had been disabled.
gMB9 TIL on August 25, 1914, in retaliation for Belgium’s guerrilla tactics in defending their country, German troops burned Leuven’s University Library, destroying hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable medieval-period books, manuscripts, and treasures.
0rlj TIL in 2012, a skydiver was almost hit by a meteor in mid-air and caught the incident on film (x-post worldnews)