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TIL That 80% of Lightning Strike Victims are Male

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WkZmX TIL about a teacher called Osamu Mizutani who for 14 years patrolled the streets at night trying to persuade Japanese youth hanging around the streets to return to regular life while also responding to calls and emails.
oR9D7 TIL the 16th century philosopher Michel de Montaigne was raised in an experiment by his parents to learn Latin as a first language. From birth, his tutor, servants and parents were only ever allowed to speak to him in Latin.
XEElj TIL in 1903, Frank Nelson Cole received a standing ovation after an hour-long presentation during which he did not utter a single word and just did calculations on chalkboard to prove that 2^67 - 1 is a composite number.
mxvpp TIL the FBI sent Martin Luther King a suicide letter, blackmailing him with secrets set to be released in 2027.
N71A8 TIL Burt Reynolds took revenge from National Enquirer who wrote crap about him for years by dumping a helicopter full of horse shit on their Florida HQ