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TIL scientists used AI to design brand new antibiotics that cured MRSA in mice, and researchers also found a totally new class of antibiotics from soil (lariocidin) the first in decades. Both could help fight drug-resistant superbugs

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O9R1 TIL: Four years after it was released, an Arizona DJ played UB40’s “Red Red Wine” as part of a feature on songs that should have been hits. Listeners started requesting it and within weeks it was the national #1 single
YpQmr TIL that the entire internet is controlled by 14 people who hold 7 keys to the global Domain Name System (DNS) that controls the domain names of every site.
xMB TIL Nzinga of Matamba was a warrior queen who kept a harem of 60 men whom she dressed in women’s clothes
L1NV TIL the woman that voiced Kyle’s Mom in south park (and sang Blame Canada!) hid her mental illness and tragically shot herself in 1999
W6BN TIL that Otto von Bismarck challenged a rival politician to a duel, but backed out after learning that his opponent choose to fight with two pork sausages, one infected with roundworm.