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TIL Plant life could not exist without lightning.

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886P TIL that in 2011, Argentina’s government forced McDonald’s to sell Big Macs at artificially low prices so that the country’s performance would appear better on the The Economist’s Big Mac Index
1WZ7 TIL on June 27, 1844, Mormon Founder Joseph Smith was murdered by an angry mob while he sat in a jail cell. The incident arose after Smith ordered the destruction of a news paper that exposed the fact he had married 8 already-married women.
8WxG TIL the Honey Badger will literally eat just about anything, not only that but their jaws are strong enough to chomp through tortoise shells. They’re fiercely intelligent and have learned how to use tools
x6KE7 TIL in WW2, when Germans captured a British bomber tail gunner who claimed that he had jumped out of his plane at 5500m without a parachute, they investigated and confirmed his claim and gave him a certificate to confirm his story.
E1Vo0 TIL that The Natural was filmed in 1983 with a 46 year old Robert Redford. Wilford Brimley was 48 at the time.