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R5gg9 TIL about the highest confirmed death toll from a lighting strike happened in Durunka, Egypt, 1994. When, during a thunderstorm, a lightning strike ignited three oil storage tanks and the floodwaters swept the blazing fuel into the village, killing approximately 469 people.
BrBLD TIL that stop signs are used all over the world except in Turkey where they are labeled "Dur"
oB8Pr TIL transposed ("flipped") numbers are always perfectly divisible by 9. If you do not get an expected result when adding up a column of numbers, divide the total by 9. If you get a round number, you've likely transposed numbers in an entry.
epnok TIL On Sep 9, 1947 team of computer scientists reported the world’s first computer bug—a moth trapped in their computer at Harvard University.
d8bjK TIL There is an enzyme called telomerase which reverses the aging process by replacing the junk DNA, which normally degrades over time, that protects coding DNA, and scientists think it is the key to immortality. Species like jellyfish and lobsters are biologically immortal because of this.