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TIL that cystic fibrosis patients are strongly encouraged not to get physically close to each other, as doing so can be fatal.

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X0rk TIL an 18th Century pirate named Calico Jack stole a ship and ran off with another man’s wife, Anne Bonny, who dressed like a man to hide her gender. Among Jack’s crew was another woman dressed as a man, Mary Read. When captured and facing execution, both women were pregnant and were thus pardoned.
p8R6O TIL A U.S. Government Employee Ran a South Central LA Drug Ring in the 1980's; the DOJ Removed this finding from the CIA Inspector General Report before giving it to Congress -- U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters & Reporter Gary Webb Found a Secret Agreement that exempted the CIA from reporting Drugs
Oopp7 TIL that ants sleep but not in the sense we understand sleep. Research into sleep patterns of insects showed that ants have a cyclical pattern of resting periods which each nest as a group observes, lasting around eight minutes in any 12-hour period.
5Ynkn TIL Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails once released an entirely free album under a Creative Commons license with the message "this one's on me"
J1jR8 TIL that the Woolworth Company (aka Woolworth's) did not go out of business but rather just changed their name to that of their most profitable division: Foot Locker