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TIL Roald Dahl’s daughter died of measles and because of a recent resurgence in the infection due to a willful lack of vaccinations, he penned a letter to parents urging them to vaccinate their children.

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0d0Ov TIL that water can boil and freeze at the same time under the right conditions, known as the triple point, where all three phases—solid, liquid, and gas—coexist in perfect equilibrium at 0.01°C and 611.657 pascals.
xa95 TIL Anwar Sadat of Egypt made peace with Israel in 1979, the first Arab nation to do so. For this, Sadat won the Nobel Peace prize, Egypt was suspended from the Arab League, and Sadat was assassinated.
9YOwm TIL: In Iranian Cuisine (Chabahar, Balochi style BBQ), they use pomegranate rub to preserve meat up to 2 years in the sun before consuming it.
kOblB TIL that when yakuza boss Tadamasa Goto wanted to have a liver transplant performed in USA in 2001, he donated 100 thousand dollars to the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. The gangster jumped the queue and got the liver; that year, 186 people in the Los Angeles region died waiting for livers.
8eB6X TIL that many animals hunt and eat porcupine. Badgers may flip them over and eat only the head, while others like bears and lions, consume them whole.