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TIL Swimmer's Itch is considered to be an emerging infectious disease you can get simply swimming in slow-moving rivers, lakes or ponds

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gMwDb TIL the spice Paprika is made from ground up red Bell Peppers.
e0xOb TIL Lily Allen wrote a song dissing her brother Alfie in 2007, criticizing him for his lazy behavior. Since then he's done well for himself best known for playing Theon Greyjoy in HBO's Game of Thrones.
W75dY TIL in 1913 Trotsky, Tito, Freud, Stalin, and hitler all lived in Vienna
7rjyP TIL after Einstein died in 1955, preserved slices of his brain were smuggled to the University of Kansas -- where as part of a hazing ritual, students would suck on bits from Einstein's brain while downing shots of cheap tequila.
OGZYY TIL that at the North Pole there is no local time since all lines of longitude, and thus all time zones, converge there. The sun rises, and sets only once per year, meaning that the sun's position could also not be used to synchronise time.