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TIL that the 7th time that park ranger Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning coincided with the 22nd time he fought off a bear with a stick.

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b694Z TIL When the US denied India supercomputers due to sanctions imposed after India's nuclear test, India made its Supercomputer "Param 8000" which proved to be the world's second-fastest computer defeating the USA. It slowly started eating th US market being 23 times cheaper than the US "CDC 6600"
jJNj TIL that, due to its isolation, a third of the plant life on the island of Socotra (Yemen) is found nowhere else on the planet, making it the “most alien-looking place on Earth”.
x6J51 TIL The Great Wall of China was reinforced with rice
6oEQ TIL that the “SEGA” chant at the beginning of Sonic the Hedgehog took up 1/8th of the memory on the cartridge.
vjKL TIL NC banned the use of scientific predictions of sea-level rise in determining coastal policies