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TIL that most Canadians live south of Seattle

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lovE7 TIL Spallanzani, an Italian Catholic priest and biologist was one of the first to disprove abiogenesis (life from non-life) by using tight fitted pants on male frogs which lead to failure to copulate and thus failure to reproduce.
X00Nk TIL HPV can affect men as well. The virus causes 95% of anal cancer, about 64% of oropharyngeal (tonsils, throat, base of tongue) cancers, and rarer cancers, such as penile cancers. There is currently no approved screening test for HPV in men.
VMb5Z TIL it can be argued the concept of an App store wasn't totally made by apple and Steve Jobs, but rather various Linux distributions in the early 90's, since the concept of package management (centralizing programs) was extremely vital to the Linux philosophy.
kOM1g TIL that the organism Mycobacterium Leprae, which causes Leprosy, has never been successfully grown in a lab in non-living media. It can only be cultivated in animal specimens, specifically on armadillo feet. This makes the organism extremely difficult to study and nearly impossible to eradicate.
R7G6 TIL that Mexico threatened to stop buying US corn unless they could sell the US avocados.