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TIL Nanoparticles containing bee venom toxin melittin can destroy human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) while at the same time leaving surrounding cells unharmed.

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D1XRe TIL the melody of "Love Me Tender" is taken straight from a civil war ballad
4Xp8b TIL that on New Years Eve, Paramedics in New Orleans, LA are required to wear Kevlar infused combat helmets for the 15 minutes before and after midnight because of the frequency of falling bullets.
Wkw8A TIL Sales of Lucky Strike cigarettes experienced an increase of 10 billion packets a year after being featured on the television Mad Men, in which it was a major client of Don Draper's advertising agency and his cigarette brand of choice.
E15Ko TIL that a Plaque in Plainfield, Indiana marks the spot where a Carriage Driver intentionally drove through a huge mudhole to fling ex-President Martin Van Buren out of the carriage and into the mud. Van Buren had opposed a bill that would have funded improvements to the National Road.
Kv49 TIL that before standard CPR was invented, the dominant response to cardiac arrest was to cut open the chest and massage the heart directly in the hands.