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TIL about Mary Anning, whom when she was 15 months old in the year 1800, she survived a lightning strike that killed the 3 women watching over her. She was completely fine and went on to be a well known palaeontologist.

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TIL Thomas Edison created the first ever film studio, "The black maria", which could rotate so that it could always catch the best lighting. There, they shot "The kiss" (1898) which contained the first on-screen kiss, which caused a demand for the first ever film industry censorship.

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TIL the Mpemba effect, that is, the phenomena of hot water freezing faster than cool water, despite being common in daily life, is still debated and not understood

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TIL about Mary Anning, whom when she was 15 months old in the year 1800, she survived a lightning strike that killed the 3 women watching over her. She was completely fine and went on to be a well known palaeontologist.	222
TIL Thomas Edison created the first ever film studio, "The black maria", which could rotate so that it could always catch the best lighting. There, they shot "The kiss" (1898) which contained the first on-screen kiss, which caused a demand for the first ever film industry censorship.	76
TIL the Mpemba effect, that is, the phenomena of hot water freezing faster than cool water, despite being common in daily life, is still debated and not understood	1