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TIL out of the three different types of lightning, ground to cloud lightning is the rarest, but the most dangerous. The reason why it is called “ground to cloud” is that the flash itself comes up from the ground.

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VMB70 TIL that only 12 people have won an EGOT (Emmy, the Grammy, the Oscar and the Tony). They are: Richard Rogers, Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, John Gielgud, Audrey Hepburn, Marvin Hamlisch, Jonathan Tunick, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Whoopi Golberg, Scott Rudin, Robert Lopez.
D1NXJ TILL during the Night of the Long Knives, the Nazis accidentally killed a music critic called Willi Schmid, when their intended target had been someone with a similar surname. A few days after his death, Rudolf Hess visited Willi’s widow and apologised for the mistake, and offered her a pension.
waRW TIL Afrika Bambaataa (considered to be one of the founding fathers of hip hop) has been accused by multiple people of sexual molestation dating back to the 1970s.
xVjZB TIL: The first known instance of the classic "twirly mustached villan tying a woman the railroad tracks" occurred in 1867 and it was actually a man tied to the train tracks being saved by a woman.
ZpPbQ TIL in 2005, Sony sold music CDs that installed hidden software without notifying users (a rootkit). When this was made public, Sony released an uninstaller, but forced customers to provide an email to be used for marketing purposes. The uninstaller itself exposed users to arbitrary code execution.