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TIL on 18/04/1930 on the BBC News the news was that there was no news.

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kOkOB TIL that Guinea worm disease (Dracunculiasis) is likely to be the first parasitic disease to be globally eradicated, and that treatment by slowly extracting the nematode by wrapping it around a stick hasn't fundamentally changed since at least 1550 BCE as described in an Egyptian medical papyrus
xVEko TIL The maximum amount of money you can win in a single game of Jeopardy is $566,400.
BrVkb TIL: Durring WW1 Germany did not attack Carlota of Mexico's Belgian estate because she was technically an Austrian Princess.
OGgY4 TIL about Sedevacantism, the belief that the current Pope is not Catholic and that there has not been a true Pope since John XXIII died in 1963, since all Popes after him accepted the Second Vatican Council which they call heretical
5YO7D TIL most vodkas in the US are pretty much the same, with no distinctive character, aroma, taste, or color.