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TIL that Eminem is afraid of owls

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yVZPV TIL that nearly all of what we see as lightning is the current returning to the cloud from the ground. It appears to be coming from the cloud because it is illuminating the bolts that didn't reach the ground
BOMr TIL that in 2012, a 14 year old North Korean girl drowned trying to save her family’s portraits of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung (former dictators) from a flash flood
yQrRl TIL that in 1973 Johnny Carson caused a run on toilet paper after delivering this 12/19/73 monologue.
ZpMYR TIL Maximinus Thrax ignited the Crisis of the Third Century when he assassinated Roman Emperor Alexander Severus and seized the throne. A peasant by birth, his misrule led to his assassination and the near collapse of the empire
MeJ8W TIL of Bulgaria’s role during World War II as a part of the Axis. Did not participate in the war vs the Soviet Union, reluctant to send Jews to the Holocaust, had no resistance to the incoming Red Army to “liberate” them in Sept. 1944, and ended the war with slightly more land!