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TIL that "dry lightning" and "heat lightning" are myths. They are actually just extremely distant thunderstorms.

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OPY1 TIL when Washoe, first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker’s baby had died, she signed “CRY”, touching her cheek and drawing her finger down the path a tear would make on a human (Chimpanzees don’t shed tears)
ryMM TIL Bill Belichick, NE Patriots coach, is the only present day coach not in the Madden games because he is not a member of the Coaches Association which licenses the game.
lRJ1 TIL liquid Helium is the coldest substance on earth, and is critical to MRI machines and medical research. The US is intentionally depleting and disbanding its Federal Helium Reserve and will have to rely on Russian and Qatar in the future.
5GMQ TIL that The Sun does not have a definite boundary and the radius is only defined for measurement purposes.
Ypwdd TIL The Sultana steamboat sank in the Mississippi River, killing upwards of 1400 people (almost as many as the Titanic). Today the wreckage lies 37 feet below a soybean field in Marion, Arkansas.