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TIL that the structural design of the Sears/Willis tower was inspired the way cigarettes come out of a pack.

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neX8o TIL that Dr. Carlo Urbani recognized the emergence of a outbreak of pneumonia as a new epidemic and immediately notified the WHO, personally flying to Hanoi to investigate. He would die this day in 2003 of SARS, having triggered the most effective response to an epidemic in history.
WkKn9 TIL that the US Army field tested the use of camels in the American Southwest before the Civil War
ANX0B TIL Dr. Joyce Brothers first got famous by winning on The $64,000 Question; because she correctly answered a string of questions about boxing, CBS hired her to be the first ever female on-air boxing commentator
lKP7 TIL ancient human ancestor Homo erectus ate cooked food as long ago as 1.9 million years
pYNBZ TIL that when a man named Reginald Francis Cheese enlisted in the British army during World War I, he used the surname "Cleese" because he found his real surname embarrassing. He officially changed his surname to Cleese in 1923, and went on to become the father of the famous comedian John Cleese.