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TIL Coyotes run faster than Roadrunners.
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TIL about Janet Parker, the last person on record to die of smallpox. In 1978, Parker worked above a U.K. research laboratory conducting experiments with the pathogen. Today smallpox is officially held at only two places in the world, the CDC in the U.S. and the Vector Institute in Russia.
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TIL the first same sex couple in History were 2 manicurists to the Pharaoh, Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. They are depicted facing each other and embracing in their joint tomb with inscriptions reading “joined in life and joined in death”
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TIL that in 2008 “Due to a technical error” wine replaced water in dozens of homes during the Italian grape festival in Marino, Italy.
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TIL that we have discovered only two interstellar objects that have passed through our solar system.
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TIL: The man that stopped the tanks in Tiananmen Square walked away without getting hurt.