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TIL - Some people purposefully infect themselves with hookworm to treat allergies and other auto-immune diseases.

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Pe5E TIL in the 1970s the entire native population of an island in the Indian Ocean was forcibly removed to establish a naval base
R7ZB6 TIL about Steve Rothstein, who bought a lifetime unlimited First Class American Airlines ticket for $250,000. That ticket with his flights (listed as being over 10,000) cost the company over $21,000,000. They terminated his ticket in 2008.
YEJB TIL that the phrase “going postal” is derived from a series of incidents from 1986 onward in which USPS workers shot and killed managers, fellow workers, and members of the police or general public in acts of mass murder
WQjX TIL that there is a Japanese robotics company named Cyberdyne, whose flagship product is the HAL.
mAkx TIL swingers have the highest rate of STDs/STIs. you are far more likely to contract STDs/STIs from them than what you would from prostitutes.