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TIL the charity project prevention pays addicts $300 to go on long term birth control

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QNe89 TIL The bubonic plague lives in the stomach of it's host, the flea. When it attempts to feed, this causes it to regurgitate infected blood back in to the wound, spreading the bacteria
kOlE4 TIL the Korean Gong clan of Qufu, their ancestors was Confucius. there are 7.4K members in Korea (According to the research held in 2000), including some famous Kpop and Kdrama stars
gnmX TIL the repeated line “My life is brilliant” at the beginning of the James Blunt song “You’re Beautiful” was truly an accident. Blunt started his vocal on the wrong measure, waited a moment, and then started it again. It was left in the final recording.
vEZ8 TIL the “dollar” is an anglicized version of the dutch “daler”, which was in heavy use in the Caribbean and New Amsterdam (New York) from 1600 to 1800s. The Daler is short for the German “Joachimsthaler”, a currency that was produced in the 1300s in Joachimsthal, Bohemia.
v1anL TIL that Dr. Fe Del Mundo, the first woman to be admitted to Harvard Medical School and inventor of an incubator made of bamboo, sold her house to create the Philippines' first pediatric hospital and continued making her hospital rounds until she was 99 years old.