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TIL that your body odors changes when you've been successfully infected by plasmodium (Malaria). Thereby making you a better target for mosquitos and spreading the disease.

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WExd TIL that a Subaru production plant in Indiana produces less waste in a year than an average family of 4 does in a week. It is also the only manufacturing plant that is a designated wildlife habitat, co-existing peacefully with local wildlife.
oR9PW TIL that the Great Sphinx of Giza’s nose has been broken since at least the 1400s. A 15th century writer blamed the incident on the actions of a zealot in 1378. Archaeological evidence indicates the nose was broken off by rods or chisels.
QJ0pk TIL the children's cartoon Arthur is still producing new episodes and is on its 21st season, and has been running longer than South Park
0wWYR TIL Leaf cutter ants learned to farm 50 million years ago, they bring back leaves to feed and grow a fungus that is their food source. They also poop and excrete chemicals around the fungus that protect it against pests.
KO04G Protons are made up of even smaller particles called quarks, so you might expect that simply adding up the quarks’ masses should give you the proton’s mass. However, that sum is much too small to explain the proton’s bulk. And new, detailed calculations show that only 9 percent of the proton’s heft comes from the mass of constituent quarks. The rest of the proton’s mass comes from complicated effects occurring inside the particle, researchers report in the Nov. 23 Physical Review Letters.