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TIL thousands of stingray injuries are reported each year, but fewer than 20 cases of death have been recorded world wide since 1945.

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Mb4B TIL Alexander Fleming warned that misuse of antibiotics could lead to resistant bacteria during his Nobel Prize acceptance speech for discovering Penicillin
VBmVp TIL: At least one player drafted in Top 5 of the NBA draft was named Rookie of the Year, or has made an All-Star Team or All-NBA Team every year since 1976. The highest drafted player who made an All-Star Team that season was Adrian Dantley, who was drafted 6th by the Buffalo Braves.
dDXMK TIL: Prairie dogs build their burrows with a flat orifice at one end and a mounded one at the other. During a breeze, the different surface geometries create a pressure differential via the Bernoulli effect, forcing air to flow from the flat end to the mounded end, ventilating the burrow.
Y7ylG TIL in 2009 Burger King ran the "Whopper sacrifice" campaign, which gave a free whopper to anyone who deleted 10 friends on Facebook. Facebook suspended the program because Burger King was alerting people letting them know they'd been dropped for a sandwich
PYpme TIL Chernobyl wasn't the first Russian Nuclear disaster. They also had the Kyshtym disaster in 1957