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TIL A single lightning bolt is 5x hotter than the surface of the sun

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LQg7Z TIL Hall of famer Red Kelly won 2 out of his 8 Stanley Cups while also serving as a Member of Parliament in Canada.
OoP9Y Today I learned the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel Maus also co-created the Garbage Pail Kids.
6xmJ TIL that Johnson & Johnson knew their baby powder product caused ovarian cancer in some consumers, but sold it anyway. A victim successfully sued for $70 million but J&J still maintained that their baby powder was “perfectly safe”.
pNKQ TIL Enterprising Kenyans pretended to be Somali pirates and gave fake interviews to foreign journalists for cash
PYn9V TIL In 1942, the Nazis cracked the algorithm for the serial numbers and rag content of British Pound notes. Using prisoners with counterfeiting skills, near perfect bills were produced with the plan to scatter them over England by air to induce hyperinflation and collapse the economy.