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TIL| There is a Malaria vaccine in the works that may be approved for distribution by 2015.

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KONGJ TIL Not only did the "Plague Doctors" wear terrifying masks that were thought to prevent the spread of the Black Plague through the presence of good smells, but they also rarely cured patients. Their actual purpose was to survey the number of people infected for demographic purposes.
QNDa6 TIL that there was an English painter who was also a chimpanzee named Congo, who produced 400 pieces of art by the time he turned four. His style was called "lyrical abstract impressionism" and Pablo Picasso was reportedly a fan of his work.
AYgg TIL The earliest known use of the phrase “trick or treat” appeared in a small town in Alberta, Canada in 1927
167DW TIL Gregor Mendel's research into inheritance was largely ignored or misunderstood until Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns independently duplicated his works in 1900. Mendel's paper on plant hybridization had only been cited 3 times in the previous 35 years.