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TIL lightning fertilizes plants. When lightning strikes, it rips nitrogen bonds in the atmosphere and the rains carry them into soil.

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Z8XDR TIL Disney has a bedtime hotline you can call where you can speak to a Disney character (including Yoga and Spiderman) and they'll tell your kid to go to sleep.
YpQ8v TIL according to Noel Gallagher, one of the two reasons "Don't Look Back In Anger" uses the piano riff from "Imagine" is to "wind people up". He also doesn't fully know what the song means, as he wrote it under the influence.
R7xgQ TIL there was a black samurai named Yasuke. He was owned by a Jesuit missionary who gave him to the Daimyo, Oda Nobunaga. Nobunaga took an interest in him and made him a samurai, teaching him Japanese and giving him a home and a katana.
6EGJQ TIL of the “Tully Monster” an ancient creature so strange researchers have yet to agree whether it’s a vertebrate or an invertebrate.
LQVe0 TIL there’s a song called Longplayer that’s designed to play for 1,000 years without repetition. It began playing Jan 1, 2000 and will end Dec 31, 2999