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TIL lightning doesn’t have an increased chance to strike you while looking out of the window 😅

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GAoJG TIL, that in 1969 the Internet's first message was sent from UCLA to Stanford Research. It was intended to be "LOGIN" , due to a system crash, only "LO" was received at the other end.
VMaDD TIL of Staff Sgt. Monique Munro-Harris, who survived a sting from one of the world's most poisonous creatures and now goes by the call sign "The Scorpion Queen"
KYOn9 TIL after he was fired from his job as embassador, tortured and banished to his farm estate, N.Machiavelli would return home at night, change the dirty clothes he wore for field work and put on his ambassador outfit, just to study in his office, alone, due to how much he missed his job
NXmBN TIL that from the TV hit show Pawn Stars, Chumlee was involved in the m*rder of a woman and Adam the son overdosed
ZpLdv TIL In 1966 Lee Cummings, the nephew of KFC founder Colonel Harland Sanders, started his own chain of chicken restaurants in Ohio after developing his own chicken recipe. As of today Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken has 131 locations.