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TIL Plant life could not exist without lightning.

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b6lNa TIL the bars on exit doors were coined "crash bars" due to the way people crashed into them to escape during emergencies. Before these devices were invented, people were often crushed to death as they tried to escape through doors that wouldn't easily open.
GZYE TIL Self checkout lanes not only do not save their customers time but usually take them even more time to check out than customers in standard checkout lanes
YLKd TIL The US Chamber of Commerce isn’t a Federal Agency, but a massive lobby group.
RLN9 [TIL] Nestle agreed in 2001 to ensure its products were not made with slave labor by 2005. In 2005, the international organization it made the agreement with found it had not done so.
XEKOR TIL of the Dragon's Jaw Bridge, which became a symbol of resistance and legend of invincibility during the Vietnam War, being bombed by US forces 873 times and directly hit by hundreds of bombs and missiles in a span of seven years before finally being destroyed in 1972.