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TIL It's more likely that you'll die by a lightning strike than it is to die in a flood.

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78GV7 TIL that in 2000 Andre Geim won the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for levitating a frog using magnets. In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on graphene.
D1oDY TIL that albatrosses can fly 16,000 km (10,000 mi) without landing
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