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TIL more than half of all new PhDs in the US are fake

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oRejr TIL in 1977, Ali Maow Maalin was the last person known to have been infected with naturally occurring Variola minor small pox. He fully recovered and later became one of the 10,000 volunteers who participated in the effort to help eradicate polio in Somalia. Ali died in 2013 from malaria.
LkrQm TIL Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes novels, was a first-class cricketer. He played 10 games for the MCC between 1900 and 1907, achieving a high score of 43 and taking one wicket. Also, the address 221B Baker street, is just down the road from Cricket's heaven, The Lord's.
78LrP TIL America had drive in photo development booths
4XrgR TIL Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (famous for his pet moose and metal nose) was kidnapped when he was two years old by his uncle. Despite Tycho's parents knowing about this, and them being nobles of phenomenal influence, they did nothing about this, and let his uncle keep him.
a8vmZ TIL that during WWII, scientists were struggling to make enough penicillin to keep up with demand until they found a moldy cantaloupe in Peoria, IL that was producing penicillin at the highest rate they had yet seen.