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TIL That 80% of Lightning Strike Victims are Male

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Lk9bm TIL that Bill Lear, who developed the Learjet, also invented the 8-track tape.
yQ8Ya TIL that Joel Silver, producer of The Matrix Trilogy, Lethal Weapon, and Die Hard helped invent Ultimate Frisbee in high school
mxNNv TIL that an anonymous biologist managed to get a fake scientific research paper accepted into four supposedly peer-reviewed science journals, to expose the problem of predatory journals. He based the paper on a notoriously bad Star Trek episode where characters turned into weird amphibian-people.
neVb9 TIL Disney isn't legally allowed to develop Marvel attractions based on X-Men, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, and the Avengers, and their "families" on its East Coast theme parks, nor use the Marvel name in both of its West/East Coast parks due to the 1994 contract Marvel signed with Universal Studios
oBlJA TIL On April 16, 1947, America's worst harbor explosion when the Grandcamp caught fire and blew up, devastating the town. Another ship, the Highflyer, exploded the following day. The explosions and resulting fires killed over 500 people and left 200 missing.