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TIL - theres a rare phenomenon called "ball lightning," which is a highly unusual and misunderstood form of lightning. Ball lightning is characterized by the appearance of a luminous, spherical object that floats in the air for several seconds or even minutes. It's typically the size of a grapfruit

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VMvmp til of r.a.p.p. (rockers against pay-to-play), a group in los angeles in the late eighties who organized protests against hollywood music venues that required performers to buy a large amount of pre-sale tickets before they would book the aforementioned act
ADBww TIL: In the 1800s, Mrs Favell Lee Mortimer set out to write an ambitious guide to all the nations on Earth. She had never set foot outside Shropshire. She was horribly misinformed about virtually every topic she turned her attention to. And she was prejudiced against foreigners.
KVjG TIL that In 1776, only 17% of the US population was religiously involved in America and by 2000, the amount of people who were religiously involved had increased gradually to 62%
j6ZNX TIL about Bashir Ahmad, an impoverished Pakistani camel cart driver, who, on 20 May 1961, met with the then US vice-president Lyndon B Johnson, and accepted an invitation to come to America.
g7r7 TIL when Nintendo launched the SNES in America, some parents thought Nintendo was manipulating their children into purchasing an unnecessary system, and forced their kids to go to therapy sessions to show them how they were being “exploited”