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TIL the air lightning passes through after striking can be hotter than the surface of the sun

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4XjPX TIL Contrary to the popular joke, France is actually the most successful military power in history.
gMbkX TIL "On H Street in Washington DC, there’s a dull-looking, 9 storey, tan-bricked, unnamed building. It’s so indistinctive, you could walk past it and not even know it’s there. And this anonymous building is the headquarters of the Secret Service"
R7N84 TIL Leonard Cohen originally wrote 80 draft verses for his song "Hallelujah." He chose several of the most relevant and interchanged some of them depending on where he was playing.
LwgP TIL that internet providers use megabits per second (Mbps) to measure download speed, which is 1/8th the size of a megabyte (MBps), despite files being measured in bytes
6w58 TIL one of the reasons Japanese culture is often seen as bizarre in the Western World is because Japan is only one of five countries to never be colonized by Europe.