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TIL that naturally occurring magnets (lodestones) are only formed when lightning strikes magnetite, an iron ore.

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4k8Yb TIL that the Nutmobile is a peanut-shaped car, has existed since 1935, and the word is stylized as NUTmobile
9K56 TIL that the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow is 25 mph or 40 km/h.
Yp9yZ TIL China is banned from the International Space Station partly because of a fear that Chinese taikonauts will hack sensitive NASA equipment if allowed on-board.
08QN TIL a 2005 article from Der Spiegel quoting Fouad Hussein predicts the future regarding the Islamic State in an eerily accurate way: “An Islamic Caliphate in Seven Easy Steps” We’re currently at phase 5 and right on schedule.
wLK06 TIL that Medieval Norse fabrics were so exquisitely preserved in Greenland that a 20th century woman would retrieve them from archaeological sites and reuse them for childrens clothes