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TIL about Earthquake Lights, phenomenon where before, during, or after exceptionally powerful earthquakes, lights can appear in the sky

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GAgPg TIL World War II codebreaker Dilly Knox used to solve coded enemy messages in the bathtub and persuaded his superiors to have a bathtub installed in his office in the cryptanalysis section of the British Admiralty.
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