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

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6ElRJ TIL that Jupiter's magnetosphere is much larger than the sun, it reaches the outer orbit of Saturn, and if it was visible in the night sky, it would be twice the size of a full moon. You can sometimes hear it on a radio station.
oRvwE TIL Atrazine, one of the world's most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc on the population of frogs, emasculating 75% of makes, and turning 1/10 into females.
BrrdK TIL Singapore was forced into independence against their will
xj85 TIL you can be too fat to go to jail
PY1re TIL Carrie Fisher used gaffer's tape to hold down her breasts because George Lucas 'didn't want her looking too aggressively feminine'. Carrie Fisher joked about it saying: 'No breasts bounce in space, no jiggling in the Empire'.