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TIL Velcro is actually called hook and loop. Velcro is a name brand, like Kleenex.

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OZY7 TIL that Roy Sullivan is the record holder for most survived lightning strikes. He was struck in a fire lookout tower, in his truck, in his front yard, in a ranger station, twice while driving away from the storm, and immediately after the seventh strike he fought off a bear with a tree branch.
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