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TIL: The measles has a rare complication called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis that occurs 6-15 years after the virus is caught. This complication causes brain swelling which leads to memory loss, change in personality, loss of body functions, uncontrollable spasming, and inevitably death.

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69Yew TIL in 2001, a young boy in Florida had his arm bitten off by a shark. His quick-thinking uncle not only rescued him but also wrestled the 200-pound shark to shore. The boy's arm was retrieved from inside the shark, and after an 11-hour surgery, it was successfully reattached.
8wmZ TIL in 1953, the City of Niagara Falls bought a plot of land called “Love Canal” for $1 from a chemical company that had used the area as a dump. Despite warnings from the company, a school was built on the land. From 1974–1978, 56% of children in the area were born with birth defects.
neoad TIL bicycle stability is actually a quite difficult mathematical problem and was fully explained no sooner than 2007
b6lvN TIL that Spain didn't become a Democracy until the mid 1970s
woVeo TIL that the term 'making love' meant flirtation or verbal protestation of love and devotion since its inception in the 1590s up to the early 1900s