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TIL The space shuttle creates an electrostatic large charge on launch which is a reason why lightning is so dangerous for a launch.

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NoNe TIL Of a set of twins from the UK - one is black and one is white. They have the same parents.
0mPv TIL that a man spent $600 A DAY on the Florida Lotto, racking up $600,000 debt before hitting the jackpot
b958N TIL the Nazis were very close to developing plutonium, a material used to make atomic bombs. However, the factory producing it was bombed by a team of 11 Norwegian saboteurs, one of them stopping the operation to find his glasses at one point, completely destroying the equipment related.
vPPm8 TIL that the United States is the world's biggest food product exporter by far, valuing at around $90 billion annually.
NnW1 TIL all people convicted in the 1984 Bhopal MIC Gas disaster, which killed 3,000 people and injured over 500,000, got a total fine of $2,000