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TIL that in the US, humans are more likely to survive a lightning strike than die from it. Only 10% of lightning strikes cause death.

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Y79AZ TIL Unix time, a concept originating from the Unix operating system developed in the 1960s, represents timestamps as the number of seconds elapsed since January 1st, 1970 at 00:00:00 UTC This method simplifies parsing and utilizing time across various systems by representing it as an integer.
6EXbJ TIL New York City is the most linguistically diverse city in the world, with as many as 800 spoken languages
d80OZ TIL that a deep sea snail known as the Scaly-Foot Gastropod, which was only recently discovered in 2001, has a shell so well constructed that the U.S. military is researching its design, hoping to incorporate its defensive layers to improve military armor.
JYnpV TIL bumblebees have parasitic "doppelgangers" called cuckoo bumblebees that resemble a specific race enough to be able to sneak into their nest, kill the queen, and trick all the workers into feeding their offspring and ultimately taking over the whole nest before moving onto their next target.
6Evg7 TIL The Girl Scouts were offered an anonymous $100,000 donation, with the only condition being it couldn’t be used to support Transgender girls. They turned it down, and launched a counter online funding campaign that made $300,000.