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TIL Tom Morello; guitar player for bands like Audioslave and Rage Against the Machine, was the child of the very first elected president of Kenya

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R75D1 TIL that intelligence agencies seek what they call "FINCA": information that is Foreign, of Interest, New, Clandestine, and Authoritative.
N7EJM Across the atmosphere of Earth, lightning flashes about 50 times per second. That’s 4.3 million times a day and roughly 1.5 billion times a year.
YmkP TIL a man received the heart of a suicide victim, married his widow, and years later killed himself in the same way the donor did.
7kDb TIL that the 4th best supercomputer in the world simulated the equivalent of 1 second of human brain activity, but it took about 40 minutes.
jRdR TIL inclusion of the term “oral sex” caused California schools to ban the dictionary.