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TIL that "heat lightning" is just regular lightning that has been observed from far away, and thus able to be seen but not heard. It is not a different type of lightning.

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BrkmL TIL Sue Grafton, known author of the "alphabet series" ('"A" Is for Alibi', '"B" Is for Burglar', etc) died months after the release of '"Y" is for Yesterday', leaving her one book shy of the complete series.
XEpOE TIL Steven Spielberg's carreer began when he was a boy scout, by making a nine-minute 8mm film entitled "The Last Gunfight" which earned him a photography merit badge.
awBZN TIL about Wholphins, a rare cross between a whale and a dolphin. First recorded in 1981 in captivity, but also found in the wild.
E1GeW TIL the Univeristy of Oxford is older than the Aztec Empire (Oxford: 1249 AD. Aztecs: 1325 AD)
nnM9 TIL the plot of the pilot episode of the show “The Lone Gunmen”, a spinoff of the X-Files, featured 3 conspiracy theorists thwarting a secret government plot to fly a plane into the World Trade Center and blame it on foreign interests in order to boost defense spending, it aired march 2001.