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TIL about the Shope papilloma virus, a virus that can cause rabbits to grow "horns" on their head. This may have led to the myth of the jackalope

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6E7M7 TIL Most of your bodies serotonin (90%) is produced within your digestive track not your brain.
16nD7 TIL the name for the state of California has nothing to do with indigenous languages. The name comes from a popular Spanish chivalric romance series where California is a fictional island (1510)
0woMA TIL the Echis (Saw-Scaled Viper) is responsible for more human related deaths than any other snake and is arguably responsible for more deaths per year than all other snake species combined.
P18Vg TIL that during World War II, the Danish resistance movement smuggled the Jews out of Denmark before the Nazis could send them to the concentration camps, in part by going through telephone books and warning everyone with Jewish-sounding names to go into hiding.
nWm1b TIL about the MV Liemba, a ferry on Lake Tanganyika, which was laid down in 1913 in Germany. It served as a WWI warship and it sunk twice, first deliberately in 1916 and again in 1920 due to a storm. It was raised again in 1924 and it is operating almost nonstop since 1927