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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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0wVb5 TIL Non-avian Dinosaurs would have not gone extinct if the asteroid hit anywhere else but the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.
e0n6E TIL: It’s doubtful that dinosaurs would be able to survive today. During the Cretaceous Period 145-66 million years ago the average global temperature was 4ºC higher than today, with little difference between the temperature of the equator and the poles
MeMg8 TIL that the inside of a tornado is filled with blue lightning, and many little tornadoes. The air is smooth, not turbulent, but hard to breath.
V4LB TIL that the widely distributed Sears Roebuck catalog was also used as a popular substitute for toilet paper until it began to be printed on glossy paper (at which point some people wrote to the company to complain).
4X6RJ TIL that lawyer and political commentator Barbara Olson was flying to California on September 11th, 2001 to be a panelist on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. She was on AA Flight 77 which was hijacked and flown into the Pentagon. Maher left a panel chair empty for a week in her memory.