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TIL that blood plasma is America's 10th largest export surpassing that of trucks.

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1la4 TIL that the concept of a zombie apocalypse is four thousand years old. In the heroic epic about him, Gilgamesh, the mythical king of Uruk spurned the advances of Ishtar, the goddess of fertility. She became enraged and threatened to “raise the dead who will outnumber the living and devour them.”
kOl5B TIL the first inter-state quarantine ever undertaken in America happened in Cincinnati in 1878 thanks to Dr. Thomas C. Minor - and it even received some pushback from the local community
LQVb9 TIL: In 1962, a 10 year old found a radioactive capsule and took it home in his pocket and left it in a kitchen cabinet. He died 38 days later, his pregnant mom died 3 months after that, then his 2 year old sister a month later. The father survived, and only then did authorities found out why.
oBQo TIL that the oldest school in the world was founded between 143-141 BC during the rule of the Han Dynasty in Chengdu, China, and is still in use today
yQ6Ze TIL there are wasps that make honey, called Mexican Honey Wasps.