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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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G4oj TIL During World War II in 1940, Japan bombed Ningbo with ceramic bombs full of fleas carrying the bubonic plague.
ADPx7 TIL Norway has implemented a digital drivers license in the form of an app, that can be used instead of a physical one for roadside inspections.
nevMb TIL much of St Peter's Basilica was funded by selling indulgences, meaning letters excusing you from sin. Rich people sometimes even bought these in advance, for sins they planned on committing.
GAZWE TIL a book club in California spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, beginning in 1995 and finishing in October 2023. At first the club read two pages per month, however it eventually slowed to just one page per month. In November, the group started the book again.
w8lJ TIL: in 1984, a ball of lightning burned a hole into a Soviet passenger airliner mid-flight, then vanished with a bang. It reappeared moments later in the passenger area (floating above their heads), split into two crescent shapes, then finally rejoined and burned a new exit hole to leave the plane.