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TIL Herpes was considered unimportant until the 1970’s when a drug company purposely stigmatized it in order to create a market for a drug.

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woAdJ TIL that a carpenter got an MIT PhD. After his sailboat almost sank during a storm, Lyman Page decided to go to graduate school in physics. He went to MIT unannounced, got an unpaid night job in a lab, and worked as a carpenter. The job turned into a PhD, and Page is now a Princeton professor.
EmZP TIL a man bitten by a poisonous coral snake killed the reptile by biting off its head then used its skin as a tourniquet
EvPx TIL in 1973 the USA helped overthrow the elected democratic socialist president Allende in Chile and replaced it with a dictatorship
8ewNG TIL about Jospeh Simek, a Wisconsin bar owner who decided to create his signature pizza recipe. His pizza was a big hit selling 2,000 a day. He decided to name it after his bar that was situated next to a cemetary, Tombstone Pizza.
j6VyM TIL Mugger crocodiles & American alligators use tools: they collect sticks, partially submerge themselves, balance the sticks on their head, & when a bird approaches to take a stick for its nest, they spring their trap. This strategy is the first known case of a predator using an object as a lure.