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

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AJNx TIL: There’s a website that informs you on how easy (or difficult) it is to delete an account from the most popular sites on the web, places them on either a white or blacklist, and even helps you facilitate the deletion.
v1ne8 TIL Gabriele Falloppio, an Italian Catholic priest and anatomist born in 1562, was the first to describe a condom and advocate its use to prevent syphilis. In an early example of a clinical trial, Falloppio reported that from a sample of 1,100 condom users, none of them contracted syphilis
G5EE TIL there exists a fungus, the smell of which can trigger spontaneous orgasms in human females.
N7BZb TIL that a party boat carrying about sixty men and women once capsized in Texas after all the passengers rushed over to one side of the boat when the boat passed a nude beach.
D1Yge TIL the Macadamia nut has the toughest shell of any nut in the world, requiring 300 pounds per square inch to crack.