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TIL that a Herpes virus, Murid gammaherpesvirus 68, symbiotically protects its host from Yersinia pestis (Bubonic Plague)

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ajoJ TIL that NERF is an acronym for Non-Expanding Recreational Foam.
6eGw TIL there are are catfish in France that have learned to lunge out of the water and hunt pigeons with a 28% success rate.
wBoo TIL the Spanish have a tradition consisting of eating a grape with each bell strike at midnight of December 31
dDDZ TIL Joaquín Guzmán Loera, #1 on the 2011 World’s Most Wanted list, walked into a restaurant with armed bodyguards, confiscated the cell phones of all the patrons and told them not to be alarmed, then ate his dinner, paid for the meals of everyone in the restaurant and left.
GkNN TIL of a Boston doctor who uses tricks to minimize pain when treating children; including one of his patients who received 6 stitches on a head wound without even realizing it happened.