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TIL that having an ancestor that caught the plague and survived could result in their descendants being immune to the HIV virus

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6KRX TIL Disney world is built upon a small city that runs the park
6bX8 TIL If the Australian Bull Ant is cut in half, both halves will battle each other to the death “…every time the experiment is tried.”
6Ymw TIL that four-leaf clovers are only rare in nature because 4 is not a number in the fibonacci sequnce
nWxM7 TIL that in Clifton, Arizona there is an old jail which was dug into the side of a cliff. The guy who built it was the first prisoner after going out and celebrating the opening and getting arrested for shooting his guns in the air at the bar.
oJY TIL that in the original play and novel fairies in Neverland are extremely short lived and that, by the time of the epilogue set a year later, when Wendy asks Peter Pan about Tinker Bell he had completely forgotten she ever even existed.