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TIL That capturing electricity from lightning would not only be inefficient, but also incredibly difficult.

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neEMr TIL of "Daughter from California syndrome", a phrase used in the medical profession to describe situation in which a long-absent family member arrives while a patient is dying to demand inappropriately aggressive care.
NXGg8 TIL about Lonesome George, a Pinta Island tortoise who was the last of his kind before dying in 2012. Researchers tried to have George mate with other tortoises throughout his entire life, but all attempts were unsuccessful.
adn0 TIL that while watching a Flip or Flop marathon, a fan and RN reached out to the shows producers telling them that host, Tarek El Moussa, had a nodule on his neck he needed checked out. It turned out to be thyroid cancer and El Moussa was able to get it removed.
O996 TIL in the 80’s, Australian beer companies had to change the design of their bottles so a species of beetle would stop trying to mate with them
AgOd TIL, among other interesting things about Terminator 2, that Arnold Schwarzenegger never blinks on screen. Not once.