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TIL that 0.3% of bee stings can cause a delayed secondary reaction days or weeks after the initial sting

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5Ywj8 TIL the longest continuously operating university in the Americas is in Peru. The National University of San Marcos is 468 years old, founded in 1551 by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
p8lPG TIL about Brooke Greenberg, a girl who never aged. She died at the age of 20 still looking like a toddler.
JYQDk TIL That John Snow, who found the cause of cholera during the height of an epidemic, proved his findings by halting an entire outbreak through one action- removing the infected water pump handle.
yVl8J TIL both Joseph Stalin (1939, 1942) and Adolf Hitler (1938) have won Time Person of the Year.
9Ovm TIL German Chocolate Cake is named after American chocolate maker, Sam German.