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TIL 80% of lightning strike victims are male.

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awM9J TIL Chevy had an option on almost all of its cars in the 60s called "Liquid Chain". It would spray a traction enhancing substance on the tires to aid traction in snow.
oBdB8 TIL In 2011, a 46-year-old man tracked down and choked 13-year-old boy who had been taunting him in Call of Duty.
JD6V TIL that the drummer from 3 Doors Down wrote their hit song Kryptonite when he was 15 in his math class.
PL5E TIL of a man who would inject himself with snake venom in an effort to build up an immunity. He lived to be 100, survived 172 snakebites, and donated his blood to snakebite victims.
wowp6 TIL of the Sphinx, a french ironclad warship initially built for the confederacy. After the Union blocked the transaction France sold the ship to Denmark, who refused to accept the ship and sold it back to the confederates. The ship then changed hands several times to end his carreer in Japan.