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TIL every five seconds between lightning and thunder is about a mile of distance; it’s not true that each second between lightning and thunder means the storm is one mile away

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p89we TIL that despite the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bombing of Tokyo was even worse. Over 100,000 people were killed, several times that number injured, and 1,000,000 displaced in a napalm-filled, incendiary bomb attack by 334, low-flying B-29 bombers.
Z8PRB TIL In 1966, the first chess game between computer programs was played. The game took nine months and was played over telegraph.
oBdkL TIL Ned Kelly, Australian outlaw, made his last stand in homemade bulletproof armor and it scared the police so much they thought he was a bunyip or the devil
DQPpe TIL Ethan Zuckerman, the man who created pop-up ads, has said sorry to the world for inventing one of the most detested forms of online advertising.
e0vKE TIL "The Bare Necessities" From Disney's animated movie "The Jungle Book" got nominated for Best Original Song At the 1967 Oscars.