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TIL Plant life could not exist without lightning.

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5Bpk TIL Smoking in the presence of a child is considered physical abuse in Latvia.
9w8jB TIL about the Cornbread Mafia, the largest domestic marijuana syndicate in US History. In the 80s group of KY farmers and moonshiners that grew hundreds of acres in cornfields, were protected by their communities, and evaded federal agents for nearly a decade.
Ok5a TIL a Miami Gardens store owner sued the city for harassment by police. One of his employees has been stopped and questioned 258 times in 4 years and arrested 62 times for “trespassing” at the store during his shift.
nK6Y TIL Sir Robert Watson-Watt, the inventor of RADAR was caught speeding with a RADAR gun and reportedly said, “‘My God, if I’d known what they were going to do with it, I’d have never have invented it!”
1aD1O TIL: there is another version of bowling called Candlepin