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TIL Blue is the world’s most popular colour

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0da7M TIL that by releasing a massive bolt of electricity, lightning is five times hotter than the sun when it strikes. But the average lightning strike lasts only 30 microseconds.
0derN TIL that Jerome Kerviel was the world's most indebted man, owning $6.3 billion dollars to the Société Générale.
WkWE9 TIL of an attempted plane bombing in 1985 where the bomb went off an hour early, while still in the airport. The perpetrators did not realize that Japan does not observe daylight saving time, so the bomb went off before it made in onboard.
R5kWl TIL that Australia's longest serving aircraft carrier never fired a shot in anger during her service, but did kill over 150 Allied soldiers in two separate accidental ramming incidents
KY8dQ TIL You are not supposed to rinse with water after brushing your teeth