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TIL 90% of people struck by lightning survive

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kJV7B TIL that in World War II the Untied States developed bomb carrying bats for use against Japan.
4k0gg TIL that the Association of German National Jews was a group of Jewish Germans who supported Hitler in the early 1930s hoping for assimilation, but its members were later persecuted and sent to concentration camps.
1ae77 TIL about Beevive, a keychain that contains sugar water that can help revive exhausted Bees!
j6ZpX TIL In the 2008 Jeopardy! Teen Tournament, two contests both named Rachel made it to the final. To avoid confusion when calling on the contestants to answer, one of them went by Steve for the games.
E0wP TIL that in the 80s, Soviet spies were suspected of planting bugs inside typewriters to monitor the electrical noise generated as the type ball rotated and pitched to strike the paper; the characteristics of those signals could determine which key was pressed.